REICH - Music for Pieces of Wood
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- Опубліковано 31 сер 2016
- Steve Reich: Music for Pieces of Wood
Ted Babcock, percussion
Won Suk Lee, percussion
Neil Rao, percussion
Yibing Wang, percussion
Shiqi Zhong, percussion
Performed on Friday, May 15, 2015
Field Concert Hall, Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia
The driving idea behind “minimalist” music is that an element typically insignificant or overlooked in another compositional style is placed in the forefront, thereby illuminating the musical significance of what might otherwise be heard as mundane. A single harmonic change from one chord to another would not be an event in music by Brahms or Mozart, since their music involved hundreds or even thousands of harmonic changes in a single piece, but if there were only one chord change per minute, that harmonic transition would have greater weight in the overall context of the piece. Minimalist composers like Steve Reich went even further and proved that one could remove all harmonic and melodic structure completely, leaving the listener to focus solely on rhythms that are engaging and complex, while still essentially simple.
The composer provides the following note:
Music for Pieces of Wood grows out of the same roots as Clapping Music: a desire to make music with the simplest possible instruments. The claves, or cylindrical pieces of hard wood, used here were selected for their particular pitches (A, B, C-sharp, D-sharp, and D-sharp an octave above), and for their resonant timbre. This piece is one of the loudest I have ever composed, but uses no amplification whatsoever. The rhythmic structure is based entirely on the process of rhythmic "build-ups" or the substitution of beats for rests, and is in three sections of decreasing pattern length: 6/4, 4/4, 3/4.
-Steve Reich
Thank you for sharing it. It is the best performance about this musical piece that I ever heard.
Can you imagine being the guy who plays all the way through? He has stamina!
favourite rendition and instruments of this piece. There's much to enjoy and notice in each individual which makes it enthralling viewing. Thank you.
Absolutely fantastic.
Lovely, wonderful. Thank you, Curtis musicians! You are the greatest. Steve Reich is a lovely, humble, incredibly friendly man who freely shares his life and opinions in a most gentle way. Steve is 81 and is doing just great. I saw him 2 evenings, ago. He is a far greater composer than Glass. Glass seems to love himself. Steve is not the least bit arrogant. Reich is an expert with rhythm, polyrhythms. Glass is, often, such a rhythmic bore.
wow dude. I’m seriously LMFAO’ing
found what i was looking for thank varese & frank arf
What type of wood was used? Great piece!
its a shame that this is considered music, it sounds like 4 metronomes going different speeds
Only shame here is on you.
listen to something else…?