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	Encyclopedia: Music for 18 Musicians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Music for 18 Musicians is a seminal work of musical minimalism composed by Steve Reich during 1974-1976.
		Music for 18 Musicians was written for a cello, violin, two clarinets (both players double on bass clarinet), four pianos, three marimbas, two xylophones, a metallophone, maracas, and four women's voices.
		With only 18 musicians, the parts are divided as follows: A cropped image to show the relative size of a cello to a human (Uncropped Version) The violoncello, or as it is more commonly to refered to as the cello or cello (pronounced Cheh-loh), is a stringed instrument and a member of the violin family.
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	Boosey & Hawkes Making Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As to instrumentation, Music for 18 Musicians is new in the number and distribution of instruments: violin, cello, 2 clarinets doubling bass clarinet, 4 women's voices, 4 pianos, 3 marimbas, 2 xylophones and metallophone (vibraphone with no motor).
		The structure of Music for 18 Musicians is based on a cycle of eleven chords played at the very beginning of the piece and repeated at the end.
		The opening eleven chord cycle of Music for 18 Musicians is a kind of pulsing cantus for the entire piece.
	www.boosey.com /pages/making/catalogue/cat_detail.asp?musicid=548 (829 words)

	San Francisco Symphony American Mavericks Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		MUSIC FOR 18 MUSICIANS Steve Reich's breakthrough Music for 18 Musicians (1976) is constructed around a sensuous cycle of eleven chords.
		With Music for 18 Musicians, Reich moved away from his minimalist roots, in favor of more elaborate musical technique and rhythmic augmentation.
		Musically, it is a short "slow movement" on a mostly D dominant pedal supplied by the drone of the Hindenburg's engines.
	www.americanmavericks.com /prog_notes/june_17.html (954 words)

	Music for 18 Musicians -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Music for 18 Musicians is a seminal work of musical (An art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color) minimalism composed by (United States composer (born in 1936)) Steve Reich during 1974-1976.
		The sections are aptly named " (The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart) Pulses", Section I-XI, and "Pulses".
		There have been many performances of the piece, and the main recordings include the original version played by Steve Reich & Musicians, the, and the version, played by Reich and musicians along with new musicians.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mu/music_for_18_musicians.htm (649 words)

	Music for 18 Musicians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the introduction to the score, Reich mentions that although the piece is named Music for 18 Musicians, it is not necessarily advisable to perform the piece with that few players due to the extensive doubling it requires.
		With only 18 musicians, the parts are divided as follows:
		Even though it is an older recording, it was only released recently.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_for_18_Musicians (507 words)

	Music for 18 Musicians - Steve Reich - Song Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		After Reich's initial experiments with phase music, he moved on to exploring pulse -- music that had no relation to melody, but would repeat phrases of either one or several notes, increasing then decreasing in volume as long as the musician had the stamina.
		When repeated with several musicians playing around one key and starting them off at different times, the result was a piece that continuously evolved, sounding like a night drive through a neon city with bright sounds appearing on the horizon, coming closer, then disappearing behind.
		The original recording in 1978 on ECM records was a major step forward for Reich and legitimized his music beyond the experimentation of such works as "Violin Phase." Where the phase work felt insular and looped, Music for 18 Musicians stretches as far as the eye can see.
	www.mp3.com /albums/112653/summary.html (516 words)

	Music: Steve Reich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" (ECM1129, 1978) remains his masterpiece, a 56 minute and 31 second immersion into mesmerizing rhythms that is slow to start but completely engrossing and immensely rich in its ultimate coloration.
		The first and third pieces are quite similar to "Music for 18 Musicians," but the latter actually improves upon it with a smaller ensemble.
		Certainly not the first techno piece in music history, it nonetheless remains perhaps the best evocation of the dynamism of the machine age, not in the manner of pile-driving brutalism, but romantic fascination with the beauty of steel and steam.
	www.thecityreview.com /reich.htm (951 words)

	Steve Reich performs at the Auditorium in Rome: What's On in Rome Event Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I was under the impression that the entire show would be from the composition Music for 18 Musicians, but they started off with "Drumming Part One".
		Reich and 4 other musicians were playing the marimbas, and there was a keyboardist and vocalists.
		It is a remarkable sight to see the musicians moving from instrument to instrument, like worker bees moving about the stage performing their part and moving on to the next.
	www.whatsoninrome.com /event-reports.php?id=60 (808 words)

	Amazon.com: Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians: Music: Composer: Steve Reich,Performer: Steve Reich Ensemble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Music for 18 Musicians is for violin, cello, two clarinets doubling bass clarinet, four women's voices, four pianos, three marimbas, two xylophones, and a metallophone (vibraphone with no motor).
		His music is a great study in counterpoint, which for all who don't know, is technique of two or more rhythms that play at the same time, but are in the same timbre.
		If therer are 18 musicians playing this music, they must have a very strong union because the other 13 or more must have been in another room taking a prolonged break.
	www.amazon.com /Steve-Reich-Music-18-Musicians/dp/B000026258 (1791 words)

	Reich, Steve - Music for 18 musicians - Groove Unlimited
		Music for 18 Musicians features, you guessed it, 18 musicians on pianos, woodwinds, female vocals and various mallet instruments.
		Inspired by the richness of African and Indonesian percussion-based music, and hearing parallels between those cycling forms and his own explorations of repetition through tape music, Reich composed many percussive pieces, most notably 1970's Drumming.
		18 Musicians examines some of the same techniques, especially the motif of shifting phase between layers of repeated patterns, but the expanded instrumentation allows this to build to an intoxicating lushness.
	www.groove.nl /cd/4/40385.html (221 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Reich Remixed [Best of] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Music For 18 Musicians (Coldcut Remix) - Steve Reich
		'Music for 18 Musicians' was a ground-breaking album which closed out the 1970s, and it took much of the audience that had been nurtured on Tangerine Dream's 'Ricochet' and, before that, Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells'.
		Although Reich's music is inherently rhythm-based, its dynamic textures are too complex and subtle for a simple drumloop to add anything new and interesting (the definition of a remix!).Stay with the originals......
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	Amazon.co.uk: Music for 18 Musicians: Music: Steve Reich,Ensemble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Since this recording of Music for 18 Musicians has been available on CD, it has been possible for the listener to enjoy the piece in its continuous entirety without the fading in and out of the vinyl original.
		Although 'Music for Eighteen Musicians' is a work divided into an opening 'Pulse', ten middle 'Sections' and a closing 'Pulse', it is read by my CD player as one continuous track of about 1 hour in length.
		Reich: Music for 18 Musicians ~ Steve Reich
	www.amazon.co.uk /Music-18-Musicians-Steve-Reich/dp/B000026258 (1065 words)

	MUSIC REVIEW; Caught Up, Eye and Ear, In a Tale Of Disaster - New York Times
		''Music for 18 Musicians'' before intermission was a work to be looked at as well.
		If memory serves, these musicians once played ''Music for 18 Musicians'' with a whiter sound and a more pristine precision of attack.
		Reich's music and musicians were once so aloof.
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	RCA Victor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Music For 18 Musicians; Section I, 4:17 (excerpt)
		The music of composer Steve Reich has had a powerful influence on a generation of American music, and Ensemble Modern?s new BMG Classics disc of four important works by Reich celebrates his work with timely recordings of two New York-themed works, City Life (1995) and New York Counterpoint (1985).
		As if to underline the sharp urban edge in the music, City Life uses in its final movements samples of the cries of the firemen working at the World Trade Center in the wake of the bombing of 1993.
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	Amazon.com: Music for 18 Musicians: Music: Jeanne LeBlanc,Evan Ziporyn,Leslie Scott,Steve Reich,Edmund Niemann,Garry ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The pulsations of Steve Reich's landmark Music for 18 Musicians signify a New Music precipice.
		The worst question you could ever ask a music fan, one who is always searching for something more to broaden their sense of what drives this passion for music, is what their favorite album or piece of music.
		The way '18' weaves in and out of it's chords is not an ambient minimalist piece that you can enjoy as mere background music like an Eno record but this is more for concentrated listens.
	www.amazon.com /Music-18-Musicians-Jeanne-LeBlanc/dp/B000006E4C (2061 words)

	The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (20 Volume Set - PowerBookSearch!
		Only the print version is fully illustrated, and the musical examples are best viewed on the printed page, for only there can users see longer examples in their entirety while reading the accompanying narrative.
		A chronological list and index of "Dictionaries and Encyclopedias of Music" includes The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), but this is difficult to find because of an incorrect entry number under opera in the index.Another section is an annotated list of libraries describing their musical holdings.
		Since its publication in 1980 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians continues to be the undisputed leader in its field.
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	Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians - Review
		Performed by musicians, just as the title states, it actually might fall into what many would consider 'trance' music.
		With vocals, stringed instruments, lots of percussive elements (vibraphone, gamelan, marimba, maracas), pianos, and clarinets, it's one of those pieces of music that you can trace back to as a starting point for not only individual artists, but genres as well.
		While their were groundbreaking pieces both before and after it, it's one of those recordings that will envelope you if you allow it to.
	www.almostcool.org /mr/r/r33mu.html (563 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Reich: Music for 18 Musicians at Epinions.com
		Music for 18 Musicians came during a period where Reich began to experiment with using an all-human orchestra (and a large one at that) to take on his strange but strangely comforting music.
		Overall, though, Music for 18 Musicians is a wonderful piece of Minimalism at it's best and is one of the best, in my opinion, from Reich's impressive catalog.
		This is a great intro to Reich or a great piece to add to a collection if you're a fan of his other music and gives you a little taste of what it must be like to take a nap on a cloud.
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	Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Reich
		His music is characterized by a strong, steady pulse and strictly diatonic and tonal harmonies.
		The music is deeply "American" in its roots, with an unrelenting pulse and short, repeating melodic figures often compared to rock-and-roll and be-bop.
		However, like other minimalist composers, Reich’s music is also largely influenced by extra-European forms and techniques, generally viewed as a response to the largely academic, elitist climate of new music in the 1950's and 60's.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/reich.html (860 words)

	Reich @ 70 - A Closer Look: Music for 18 Musicians
		The structure of Music for 18 Musicians is based on a cycle of 11 chords played at the very beginning of the piece and repeated at the end.
		The opening 11-chord cycle of Music for 18 Musicians is a kind of pulsing cantus for the entire piece.
		One of the basic means of change or development in many sections of this piece is to be found in the rhythmic relationship of harmony to melody.
	www.carnegiehall.org /article/sound_insights/Reich/art_harmony_reich.html (503 words)

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	NPR : The Thinking Man's Minimalist at 70
		He took a snippet of speech (a recording of a preacher intoning the phrase "It's gonna rain"), looped it, phase-shifted it in layers over itself and transformed it into an oddly beautiful wash of sound.
		For Reich, that experiment opened a door into a new form of expression in music that would eventually be tagged as "minimalism." It was also the gateway to what are now considered his masterpieces, such as the hypnotic "Music for 18 Musicians," featured on Phases, a new five-disc retrospective of Reich's music.
		The hour-long piece is performed without pause, but Reich divides it up into 11 sections, flanked by an intro and outro labeled "Pulses." For maximum effect, the piece should be heard in its entirety, in order to capture the full complement of drama, color and urgency.
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	Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich
		On Friday, February 8 at 6:30 P.M., the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble will present its second performance of Steve Reich's 1976 piece, Music for 18 Musicians.
		Music for 18 Musicians is a vast, minimalist piece, in many ways the culmination of Reich's exceptional career, and certainly a sort of summing-up of his earlier works such as Violin Phase (1967) and Four Organs (1970).
		The Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble performs Music for 18 Musicians in Warner Concert Hall.
	www.oberlin.edu /con/bkstage/200202/reich.html (157 words)

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