| Uniform title | Essays. Selections |
| 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 by 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). |
| Abstract |
These 64 short pieces include Reich's 1968 essay "Music as a Gradual Process," widely considered one of the most influential pieces of music theory in the second half of the twentieth century. Subsequent essays, articles, and interviews treat the composer's early work with tape and phase shifting, showing its development into more recent work with speech melody and instrumental music. Other essays recount his exposure to non-western music--African drumming, Balinese gamelan, Hebrew cantillation--and the influence of these musics as structures and not as sounds. The writings include the composer's reactions to and appreciations of the works of his contemporaries (John Cage, Luciano Berio, Morton Feldman, Gyorgy Ligeti) and older influences (Kurt Weill, Schonberg). Each major work of the composer's career is also explored through notes written for performances and recordings. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-245) and index. |
| LCCN | 2001037477 |
| ISBN | 0195111710 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 0195151151 (pbk.) |
