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Steve Reich

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Steve Reich: Encyclopedia II - Steve Reich - Early life and work

While Reich was born in New York, his childhood years were split between divorced parents in New York and California. He was given piano lessons as a child and describes growing up with the "middle-class favorites", having no exposure to music written before 1750 or after 1900. At the age of 14 he began to study music in earnest, after hearing music from the Baroque period and earlier as well as music of the 20th century, and began studying drums with Roland Koloff in order to play jazz. His college years were spent at Cornell, where he took ...

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Steve Reich, Steve Reich - Early life and work, Steve Reich - Process music and Minimalism, Steve Reich - The 1970s, Steve Reich - The 1980s, Steve Reich - New directions, Steve Reich - Influence, Steve Reich - Reich on himself, Steve Reich - Works, Steve Reich - Selected Discography

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Steve Reich: Encyclopedia II - Philip Glass - Life and Work

Philip Glass - Beginnings education and influences. Glass was born in Baltimore, Maryland as the son of Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine. His father owned a record store, and his very refined record collection consisted to a large extent of unsold records, and thus Glass encountered modern music (Hindemith, Bartók, Shostakovich) and classical music, (Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartets and Schubert's two Piano Trios), at a very early age. He then studied the flute as a child at the Peabody Conservatory of M ...

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Philip Glass, Philip Glass - Life and Work, Philip Glass - Beginnings education and influences, Philip Glass - Minimalism: From Strung Out to Music in 12 Parts, Philip Glass - The Portrait Trilogy: Einstein on the Beach Sathyagraha and Akhnaten, Philip Glass - Theatre music: Glass and Samuel Beckett, Philip Glass - Postminimalism: From the Violin Concerto to the Symphony No.3, Philip Glass - Music for Piano: Metamorphosis and the Etudes, Philip Glass - A second opera triptych: Orphée La Belle et la Bête and Les Enfants Terribles, Philip Glass - Influences and connections, Philip Glass - Music for film, Philip Glass - New Directions: Symphonies Chamber Operas and Concertos, Philip Glass - Recent works: Waiting for the Barbarians and the Symphony No.8, Philip Glass - Works, Philip Glass - Works for the Philip Glass Ensemble, Philip Glass - Operas, Philip Glass - Chamber operas music theatre, Philip Glass - Works for solo piano, Philip Glass - Works for two pianos, Philip Glass - Chamber music, Philip Glass - Works for solo instruments, Philip Glass - Symphonies, Philip Glass - Other works for orchestra with chorus and voices, Philip Glass - Works for solo instruments and orchestra Concertos etc., Philip Glass - Vocal works, Philip Glass - Works for chorus, Philip Glass - Works for organ, Philip Glass - Other Works, Philip Glass - Film scores, Philip Glass - Selected discography, Philip Glass - Minimalist works, Philip Glass - For piano, Philip Glass - Concertos symphonies etc., Philip Glass - Chamber Music and Albums with other Musicians, Philip Glass - Operas

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Steve Reich: Encyclopedia - 1936

1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). 1936 - Events. January 7-10 - Second Italo-Abyssinian War: In the Battle of Ganale Doria, General Graziani attacks troops under Ras Desta Damtew guarding southern Ethiopia; after over three days of slaughter, the Ethiopians break and flee. January 15 - The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company. January 16 ...

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Steve Reich: Encyclopedia II - Terry Riley - Musical style and techniques

While his early endeavors were influenced by Stockhausen, Riley changed direction after first encountering La Monte Young, whose Theater of Eternal Music he performed in 1955 and 1956. Riley has referred to him as "the freakiest guy I have ever met in my life," stating that it was Young's ideas that were at the heart of minimalism, though more composers would come to name Riley as an influence. The 1960 String Quartet would be his first work in this new style, followed shortly thereafter by a string trio in which he first latched on to the repe ...

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Terry Riley, Terry Riley - Life, Terry Riley - Musical style and techniques, Terry Riley - Notable works

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Steve Reich: Encyclopedia - 1984 in music

See also: 1983 in music, other events of 1984, 1985 in music, 1980s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1984 in music - Events. January 27 - singer Michael Jackson's hair catches fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial. February 14 - Elton John marries studio engineer Renate Blauel. February 16 - Jerry Lee Lewis surrenders to federal authorities on charges of income tax evasion. Lewis is later acquitted. February 29 - KMFDM's first live performance. Marc ...

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Steve Reich: Encyclopedia - Clapping

A clap is the sound made by striking together two flat surfaces, as in the body parts of humans or animals. Humans clap with the palms of their hands, often in a constant drone to express approval (see applause), but also in rhythm to match sounds in music and dance. Seals are among the animals that clap. There is a well-known koan that involves, superficially, consideration of the act of clap ...

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Steve Reich: Encyclopedia - Aka Pygmy tribe

The Aka are a wandering African pygmy people, with large heads and slender necks, who live by hunting. Aka musicians appear on: African Rhythms (2003). Music by Aka Pygmies, performed by Aka Pygmies, György Ligeti and Steve Reich, performed by Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Teldec Classics: 8573 86584-2. Liner notes by Aimard, Ligeti, Reich, and Simha Arom and Stefan Schomann. These hunter-gatherers h ...

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Steve Reich: Encyclopedia - Canon music

In music, a canon is a contrapuntal composition that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration (e.g. quarter rest, one measure, etc.). The initial melody is called the leader, while the imitative melody is called the follower which is played in a different voice. The follower must be created from the leader by being either an exact replication of the rhythms and intervals of the leader, or a transformation such as those listed in "types of canons" (below). The simplest and most familiar e ...

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Steve Reich: Encyclopedia - Voice instrumental music

Voice instrumental music is the term used for compositions and improvisations for the human voice. This kind of music treats the human voice as an instrument just like the violin or the piano. It seeks to use the expressive capabilities of the human voice to express and perform music without words like a spontaneous improvisation on percussion or a violin sonata. It involves a class of singing which does not use words. In these cases the voice is normally being used as if it is a ...

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Steve Reich: Encyclopedia - Cooper Union

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is a privately funded college in Lower Manhattan of New York City. Cooper Union is located in the East Village, around Cooper Square and Astor Place (3rd Avenue & 6th~9th Streets). It is one of the few American institutions of higher learning to offer a full-tuition scholarship to all admitted students. The school offers degree programs in architecture, fine arts, and engineering. The Cooper Union is one of the most selective colleges in the United States, with an acceptance rate of 10-12%. With nearly 70% of accepted students coming to attend, it is als ...

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Steve Reich: Encyclopedia - Claves

Claves is a percussion instrument (idiophone), consisting of a pair of short (about 20-30 cm), thick dowels. Normally they are made of wood but nowadays they are also made of fibreglass or plastics due to the longer durability of these materials. When struck they produce a bright clicking noise. Claves are sometimes hollow and carved in the middle to amplify the sound. The rhythm is often played on the claves in latin music, and it is known as the clave. So the claves are very important in many latin music styles as the So ...

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Steve Reich: Encyclopedia - Palindrome

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units (such as a strand of DNA) that has the property of reading the same in either direction (the adjustment of punctuation and spaces between words is generally permitted). The word "palindrome" comes from the Greek palin (παλιν) "back" and dromos (δρóμος) "way, direction". Composing literature in palindromes is an example of constrained writing. Palindrome - History. According to Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue: English & ...

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Steve Reich: Encyclopedia - Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a composer of European classical music. He developed the style commonly referred to as Impressionist music, a term which was dismissed by Debussy. Debussy was not only one of the most important french composers but one of the most important figures in music at the turn of the last century; his music represents the transition from late-romantic music to 20th century modernist music. Claude Debussy - Life and Work. Claude Debussy - ...

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Steve Reich: Encyclopedia - 20th century

The 20th century lasted from 1901 to 2000 in the Gregorian calendar. Common usage sometimes regards it as lasting from 1900 to 1999. The 20th century is also sometimes known as the nineteen hundreds (1900s). However, a number of arguments have been used to justify the common usage. One advanced by Stephen Jay Gould is that the first decade had only nine years, thus contradicting the definition of decade equaled 10 years. Another argument is that the astronomical year numbering system for years does have a year zero, the ...

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Steve Reich: Encyclopedia - Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud (September 4, 1892 – June 22, 1974) was a French-Jewish composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. Milhaud was born in Aix-en-Provence and studied in Paris under Charles Widor and Vincent d'Indy. Befriended with Erik Satie many years before the Groupe des Six existed, he was the only one of that Group never to have disagreements with that composer. He discovered jazz on a trip to the US in 1922. He left Germany in 1939 and emigrated to America in 1940, where he secured a t ...

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Steve Reich: Encyclopedia - 20th century classical music

20th century classical music, the classical music of the 20th century, was extremely diverse, beginning with the late Romantic style of Sergei Rachmaninoff and the Impressionism of Claude Debussy, and ranging to such distant sound-worlds as the complete serialism of Pierre Boulez, the simple triadic harmonies of minimalist composers such as Steve Reich, and Philip Glass, the musique concrète of Pierre Schaeffer, the microtonal music adopted by Harry Pa ...

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Steve Reich: Encyclopedia - Arvo Pärt

Arvo Pärt (born 11 September 1935 in Paide) is an Estonian composer, often identified with the school of minimalism and more specifically, that of "holy minimalism" or "sacred minimalism". He is considered a pioneer of this style, along with contemporaries Henryk Gorecki and John Tavener. Arvo Pärt is best known for his choral works. Arvo Pärt - Biography. Even in Estonia, Arvo was getting the same feeling that we were all getting. [...] I love his music, and I love the fact that he is such a br ...

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Steve Reich: Encyclopedia - New Age music

New Age music - Influences. Influences reach from meditation music to classical music, world music, ethnic music. ambient music and also prog-rock and Krautrock. However, the musical structures can be understood in relation to many other forms of music that are taken much more seriously. Most New Age music falls under the category of the repetitive or the static which can resemble trance music. There is the Indian influenced minimalism of Terry Riley, Tony Conrad, LaMonte Young which utilized drones ...

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Steve Reich: Encyclopedia - Symmetry

Symmetry is a characteristic of geometrical shapes, equations, and other objects; we say that such an object is symmetric with respect to a given operation if this operation, when applied to the object, does not appear to change it. Two objects are symmetric to each other with respect to a given group of operations if one is obtained from the other by one of the operations. In 2D geometry the main kinds of symmetry of interest are with respect to the basic Euclidean plane isometries: translations, rotations, reflections, ...

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Steve Reich: Encyclopedia - Ambient music

Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise. Ambient music - History. The earliest electronic soundscape music and theories come from the work of Pierre Schaeffer who followed the futurists in classifying music into categories such as man made, natural, short and long. He made some of the first electronic music using rec ...

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