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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Steve Reich |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Steve Reich; Paul Hillier |
| ISBN: | 0195111710 9780195111712 0195151151 9780195151152 |
| OCLC Number: | 47100942 |
| Description: | xvi, 254 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Early works (1965-68). It's gonna rain (1965) ; Come out (1966) ; Melodica (1966) ; Piano phase (1967) ; Violin phase (1967) ; Slow motion sound (1967) ; My name is (1967) ; Pendulum music (1968) -- Excerpts from an interview in art forum -- Music as a gradual process (1968) -- Wavelength by Michael Snow (1968) -- The phase shifting pulse gate ; Four organs ; Phase patterns ; An end to electronics (1968-1970) -- Some optimistic predictions (1970) about the future of music -- First interview with Michael Nyman (1970) -- Gahu : a dance of the Ewe tribe in Ghana (1971) -- Drumming (1971) -- Clapping music (1972) -- Postscript to a brief study of Balinese and African music (1973) -- Notes on music and dance (1973) -- Six pianos (1973) -- Music for mallet instruments, voices, and organ (1973) -- Music for pieces of wood (1973) -- Steve Reich and musicians (1973) -- Music and performance (1969-74; 1993) -- Videotape and a composer (1975) -- Dachau 1974 / Beryl Korot -- Music for 18 musicians (1976) -- Second interview with Michael Nyman (1976) -- Music for a large ensemble (1978) -- Octet (1979) -- Variations for winds, strings, and keyboards (1979) -- Tehillim (1981) -- Hebrew cantillation as an influence on composition (1982) -- Vermont counterpoint (1982) -- Eight lines (1983) -- The desert music (1984). Note by the composer ; Text / William Carlos Williams -- The desert music : Steven Reich in conversation with Jonathan Cott (1984) -- Sextet (1985) -- New York counterpoint (1985) -- Three movements (1986) -- Six marimbas (1986) -- Tenney (1986) -- Texture ; Space ; Survival (1987) -- The four sections (1987) -- Electric counterpoint (1987) -- Non-western music and the western composer (1988) -- Different trains (1988) -- Chamber music : an expanded view (1989) -- Questionnaire (1989) -- On the size and seating of an orchestra (1990) -- Aaron Copland (1990) -- John Cage (1992) -- Kurt Weill, the orchestra, and vocal style : and interview with K. Robert Schwarz (1992) -- The cave. A new type of music theater (1993) / Steve Reich and Beryl Korot ; The cave : synopsis -- Jonathan Cott interview Beryl Korot and Steve Reich on The cave (1993) -- Thought about the madness in Abraham's cave (1994) / Steve Reich and Beryl Korot -- Answers to questions about Different trains (1994) -- Duet (1994) -- Nagoya Marimbas (1994) -- The future of music for the next 150 years (1994) -- Beautiful/ugly (1994) -- Schönberg (1995) -- City life (1995) -- Proverb (1995) -- Music and language (1996) -- Feldman (1997) -- Berio (1997) -- Three tales (1998-2000) / Steve Reich and Beryl Korot -- Triple quartet (1999) -- Know what is above you (1999) -- Two questions about opera (1999) -- Ligeti (2000) -- De Keersmaeker, Kylian, and European dance (2000) -- Steve Reich in conversation with Paul Hillier (2000) |
| Other Titles: | Essays. |
| Responsibility: | Steve Reich ; edited with an introduction by Paul Hillier. |
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<br>"Steve Reich has consolidated his reputation as an internationally renowned artist of enormous distinction: this new book is a testament to his integrity and staying power, charting as it does a musical evolution, still in progress, that has permanently altered the course of new music in the West in the last third of the twentieth century."--Music and Letters<p><br>"Writings on Music 1965-2000, a new collection of Reich's writings...substantially enlarges upon, and in most senses supersedes, its slim predecessor...These works are, at one and the same time, radical and sensible, revolutionary and respectful of tradition, and offer extensions of techniques found in diverse forms of music-making around the world...This book seems to me not an ending but a beginning: it marks a point where new work, both creative and scholarly, can start...Steve Reich has consolidated his reputation as an internationally renowned artist of enormous distinction: this new book is a testament to his integrity and staying power, charting as it does a musical evolution, still in progress, that has permanently altered the course of new music in the West in the last third of the twentieth century."--Music and Letters<p><br> Read more...
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- Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Musique -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
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