Steve Reich
Music For 18 Musicians
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* 2021 stock * Steve Reich's landmark Music for 18 Musicians is perhaps Steve Reich’s most popular, if not most important, piece of music. Defining characteristics of Music for 18 Musicians piece include an ethereal, trance vibe, pulsating bass clarinets, a consistent beat, and slowly developing chord progressions unfolding over the length of approximately one hour. Steve Reich’s genre-defining minimalist compositional tool, phasing, is demonstrated in full force here. We will dive deeper into this seminal tool and exactly how it was used in this piece of music
Release notes
An ECM Production ℗ 1978 ECM Records GmbH © 1978 Steve Reich ECM Records Postfach 600 331 81203 München www.ecmrecords.com Printed in Germany
| 1 | Pulse – Sections I-X – Pulse | 56:31 |
- Ken Ishii
- Cello
- Richard Cohen
- Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
- Virgil Blackwell
- Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
- Beryl Korot
- Cover
- Paula Bisacca
- Design
- Klaus Hiemann
- Engineer, Mixed By
- Gary Schall
- Marimba, Maracas
- Bob Becker
- Marimba, Xylophone
- Glen Velez
- Marimba, Xylophone
- Russ Hartenberger
- Marimba, Xylophone
- David Van Tieghem
- Marimba, Xylophone, Piano
- James Preiss
- Metallophone, Piano
- Steve Chambers
- Piano
- Larry Karush
- Piano, Maracas
- Steve Reich
- Piano, Marimba, Composed By, Mixed By
- Rudolph Werner
- Recording Supervisor, Mixed By, Production Manager
- Shem Guibbory
- Violin
- Elizabeth Arnold
- Voice
- Pamela Fraley
- Voice
- Rebecca Armstrong
- Voice
- Jay Clayton
- Voice, Piano







































































