Steve Reich

music of Steve Reich, I assumed that all music had to have a definite form and path, with a distinguishable climax and resolution. I believed that the only thing that distinguished music from sound was the deliberate motion and phrasing of the melodies. Having never encountered minimalism, I had never considered a piece of music absent of these things and prematurely dismissed the movement as simply noise. Yet upon hearing Reich’s pieces, I was enthralled by the almost ethereal nature of his very simple repeated patterns and amazed that it actually triggered any emotions at all. Steve Reich’s fascination with repetition began when he studied at the San Francisco Tape Music Center. He began experimentation with tape…

One of the most admired minimalist composers of our time, Steve Reich, was born in New York City in 1936. His interest in music began when he was a teenager, starting with the piano and then switching to percussion after some time. He later formed a band with a friend during these early years. Reich’s passion for music continued to grow. He eventually attended Julliard, where he began listening to one of the greatest influences on his music—John Coltrane. Although Reich soon realized that he…

But unorganized sound is simply just sound without meaning. The roots of modern day music stem back to the early twentieth century. During this era the music industry was booming. Harlem in New York was a prime location for the distribution of music sheets. During this time, Steve Reich was born in America. He was one of the few artists who was accredited for their minimal approach towards music. As time progressed music was available to a large audience when the tape recorder was invented. As…

This article is about a man named Steve Reich, who is a famous composer, whose music was beyond its time. He turned 80 years old this month and the article talks about his career so far, and what is next for him in the future. In 2011 he wrote a piece called WTC 9/11 a reflection on the horrible day and the consequences that followed. Mr. Reich tells us that he interviewed every neighbor and friend, and incorporated what they had to say into his piece. He also took emergency calls from first…

Steve Reich was affected by his parents’ divorce at just one year old, resulting in him travelling between Los Angeles and New York, with his governess, where his mother and father lived respectively. To a young child, these journeys were exciting, but growing up he understood the difference between Jews, like himself, in America, and those in Europe who would be taking very different train journeys during the time of Nazi Concentration Camps. This thought was the inspiration behind Reich’s…

composition. It was no exception to Steve Reich. Steve Reich, who had disavowed getting interested in and composing classical music, innovated playing tape loop as a significant role in his music. In the most of his music of the late 1960, the ‘phasing process’ - two tape loops of the same recorded phrase are played at the same time, and slowly those tape loops become being out of synchronizing by giving different lengths of the two loops - was worked for the basis composition’s technique for…

My son and I attended a percussion ensemble and steel band by Thad Anderson and Kirk Gay at UCF. To my surprised we enjoyed it very much. As noted in the first chapters of this course is the proper times to applaud and times to get up without interrupting the performance. All was brilliant music and beautiful harmony. My favorite piece was Reich: Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organs. This is a composition by Steve Reich in 1973. I believe this piece is a polyphonic texture. The…

As I was reading a story on Plato, The Allegory of the Cave is Plato’s way of talking about the human soul. The Allegory points to people who are so focused into their surroundings that these people often become trapped as one within, without really knowing their true ability to keen with their senses. As Plato said, “he contends that people must “go back into the cave”” or return to reality. Plato uses “The Cave” as a metaphor because he is using that for an everyday event as if you were…

Steve Reich, a Minimalist composer and artist, has been composing music since he was about 14 years old (Morrison). Upon entering Cornell at 16 years of age, Reich studied philosophy- focusing specific attention to the compositions of Paul Wittgenstein (Morrison). Wittgenstein was involved in a serious accident, leaving him with just his left arm, and so created piano arrangements designed to be played with one hand (Oram). Returning to Reich, he developed the use of repeating patterns in his…

Over the summer I went to Kentucky ,Missouri Arkansas and Texas. When I went to Arkansas I saw the old spanish cave. I got to crawl around the cave it was really cold I was 59 degrees.I had to sleep in the cave and i got wet because water leaked through the ceiling. There was not many crystals It was very muddy I was covered in mud I could not sit in a car. It took 9 hours to get there.Then we went to the craters of diamonds but we did not find any diamonds but we found really cool rocks.…