1975-1985 is my favorite Steve Reich era and Tehillim is impressively beautiful and challenging for the performers. Thank you for this upload as i didn't realize how numerous the meter changes are. I like the idea of the triangle for 3 beats and straight line for 2 beats at the top of the score, which makes rhythm reading easier.
i remember hearing this during a winter night at a frozen lake. it was snowing heavily, white soft blankets everywhere, the black sky, silence and these voices burned forever in my head
My teacher at the time (Georges-Elie Octors) told me that this was the hardest piece of music he had to conduct...Amazingly beautiful and difficult at the same time
Thank you so much for this content! For me this is one of the pinnancle of 20th century music. In some ways, it's like synthesis of all great masterpiece by Bach, Stravinsky, Stockhausen, Berio all way back to ancient African Drumming. Kudos to Reich & Boosey!
I didn't like this as much as other music he was composing at the same time, because I wasn't used to him dealing with so much text and melody. But now it's one of my favourite pieces. It's got such joy. I love the second section, it's like a village festival with the women dancing and singing and the men walloping the drums.
This piece takes me back! I bought this CD back in college, probably 2003. I love studying Reich scores and playing his pieces! I can't imagine how much of a challenge this piece is to play or sing.
Might be super late to answer you here, but the first movement is for clapping (x's) and tuned tamborims (small handheld brazilian drum), and maracas (top line). Each tamborim is played by one person. Third and fourth parts use vibraphones, marimbas, and crotales in addition to those instruments. Hopefully that's what you were looking for!
@@SteveWang251 Yes! That’s actually just a short hand for the conductor and/or players to help keep track of rhythmic groupings. Basically: triangle=three eighth notes, line=two eighth notes.
@@colinmdrum Thanks! I would not have guessed that, but I can certainly see how that would be useful in music with such constantly changing time signatures.
You have to study it step by step. Start in a slow tempo and always conduct yourself. You should be rhythmic very stabil and confident. The notes are very easy to learn. But you have to be very precisely. It written for voices which are singing normally old music without vibrato. Reich hates vibrato of voices generally.
I was one of the four vocalists who performed this with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony new music ensemble in the 1990s and it took incredible concentration - but it was thrilling!
@@klausbaden It's about the counting, which not all singers are good at (as you likely know). We rehearsed separately as a quartet until we were sure of the voice part interactions. That was invaluable. If the quartet is solid, they can be relatively fearless when they're first combined with the rest of the ensemble. Straight tone is required, and each singer needs to be on mic to make that feasible. Good luck - it's a wonderful work!
They indicate duple and triple rhythmic groupings. A line represents two eighth notes and a triangle represents three. It helps the musicians stay in time and get a sense of where the rhythmic emphasis should be
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Thank you Steve Reich and the inspiration that touched you for this holy masterpiece!
1975-1985 is my favorite Steve Reich era and Tehillim is impressively beautiful and challenging for the performers. Thank you for this upload as i didn't realize how numerous the meter changes are. I like the idea of the triangle for 3 beats and straight line for 2 beats at the top of the score, which makes rhythm reading easier.
i remember hearing this during a winter night at a frozen lake. it was snowing heavily, white soft blankets everywhere, the black sky, silence and these voices burned forever in my head
My teacher at the time (Georges-Elie Octors) told me that this was the hardest piece of music he had to conduct...Amazingly beautiful and difficult at the same time
Hit like before playing this masterpiece! I love Reich’s music to syncopated bits!
The first time I heard that 4 voice cycle, I thought I was hearing music from another world.
OMG you cannot have ads in the middle of a musical piece.
ad block
please
The antithesis of creative expression
Agreed 100%. Feels like greed
That’s why you buy UA-cam premium
UA-cam philistines!
Thank you so much for this content! For me this is one of the pinnancle of 20th century music. In some ways, it's like synthesis of all great masterpiece by Bach, Stravinsky, Stockhausen, Berio all way back to ancient African Drumming. Kudos to Reich & Boosey!
One of my favorite pieces of music - part of my own musical formation way back when. Probably influenced my own composing more than any other piece.
I didn't like this as much as other music he was composing at the same time, because I wasn't used to him dealing with so much text and melody. But now it's one of my favourite pieces. It's got such joy. I love the second section, it's like a village festival with the women dancing and singing and the men walloping the drums.
I can't even begin to imagine how difficult this is to sing
This piece takes me back! I bought this CD back in college, probably 2003. I love studying Reich scores and playing his pieces! I can't imagine how much of a challenge this piece is to play or sing.
thanks so much for uploading the score! great!!!! this was love at first heard 20 years ago!!
RIP Jay Clayton, one of the voices on this.💔
Finally, this video for my favorite piece of music exists.
Next year in June in Freiburg and Basel!
It's such a great work but Part IV and the accelerando up into is crafted oh so perfectly...
Thank you!
I Love this so f****** much !!
If I am in ITU please play this to me, the most exciting and wonderful piece, and I will spring into life again❤️
This is so cool !!!
No hay otro igual. Steve Reich.
VIBE
Pure genius
Love the lyrics !!
I wish it were longer
Part II 11:49
Part III 17:45
Part IV 24:03
Reminds me of Esperanza Spalding
9:23
I'm trying to read the percussion notation. Any clues? Much appreciated.
Might be super late to answer you here, but the first movement is for clapping (x's) and tuned tamborims (small handheld brazilian drum), and maracas (top line). Each tamborim is played by one person. Third and fourth parts use vibraphones, marimbas, and crotales in addition to those instruments. Hopefully that's what you were looking for!
@@colinmdrum much appreciated Colin! I am studying this piece every day, so never too late.
@@colinmdrum Do you know what the triangles and vertical lines mean? I'm not familiar with this notation.
@@SteveWang251 Yes! That’s actually just a short hand for the conductor and/or players to help keep track of rhythmic groupings. Basically: triangle=three eighth notes, line=two eighth notes.
@@colinmdrum Thanks! I would not have guessed that, but I can certainly see how that would be useful in music with such constantly changing time signatures.
First Circle!
hallelujah!
The amount of focus it must take to sing these parts must be very demanding.
You have to study it step by step. Start in a slow tempo and always conduct yourself. You should be rhythmic very stabil and confident. The notes are very easy to learn. But you have to be very precisely. It written for voices which are singing normally old music without vibrato. Reich hates vibrato of voices generally.
I was one of the four vocalists who performed this with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony new music ensemble in the 1990s and it took incredible concentration - but it was thrilling!
@@lisarainsong That's really cool, and yeah Steve Reich pieces take a lot of concentration to perform.
@@lisarainsong Could I ask you about the demands of singing in Tehillim something? Perhaps in a pm? I will conduct it three times end of May....
@@klausbaden It's about the counting, which not all singers are good at (as you likely know). We rehearsed separately as a quartet until we were sure of the voice part interactions. That was invaluable. If the quartet is solid, they can be relatively fearless when they're first combined with the rest of the ensemble. Straight tone is required, and each singer needs to be on mic to make that feasible. Good luck - it's a wonderful work!
There’s not enough triangle in this.
Don't you mean cowbell?
Masterpiece! ‘Nuf said. 😎🎹
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Question. Is this the scripture in song form?
It's the original Hebrew text from psalms 19, 34, 18 and 150.
There seems to be a correlation between the cantillation marks and the rhythm of words.
@@HavaRahel Yes the piece was partly inspired by Steve Reich's study of Hebrew cantillation.
What the triangles mean?
They indicate duple and triple rhythmic groupings. A line represents two eighth notes and a triangle represents three. It helps the musicians stay in time and get a sense of where the rhythmic emphasis should be
@@antonvonsehrwald Thanks!!!
Sounds like the bird from Stereolab!!
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What language are they singing in?
Hebrew
björk brought me here
ژورابک ژوراف
Jk