Steve Reich

Reich circa 1982–1984 |birth_date = |birth_place = New York City |era = Contemporary |notable_works = *''Piano Phase'' *''Clapping Music'' *''Drumming'' *''Music for 18 Musicians'' *''Different Trains'' *''Three Tales'' *''WTC 9/11'' |website = }}

Stephen Michael Reich ( ; born October 3, 1936) is an American composer best known as a pioneer of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons. Reich describes this concept in his essay, "Music as a Gradual Process", by stating, "I am interested in perceptible processes. I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music." For example, his early works experiment with phase shifting, in which one or more repeated phrases plays slower or faster than the others, causing it to go "out of phase." This creates new musical patterns in a perceptible flow.

His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns, as on the early compositions ''It's Gonna Rain'' (1965) and ''Come Out'' (1966), and the use of simple, audible processes, as on ''Pendulum Music'' (1968) and ''Four Organs'' (1970). Works like ''Drumming'' (1971) and ''Music for 18 Musicians'' (1976), both considered landmarks of minimalism and important influences on experimental music, rock, and contemporary electronic music, would help entrench minimalism as a movement. Reich's work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage, notably ''Different Trains'' (1988).

Reich's style of composition has influenced many contemporary composers and groups, especially in the United States. Writing in ''The Guardian'', music critic Andrew Clements suggested that Reich is one of "a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history". Provided by Wikipedia
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    City Life : for ensemble by Reich, Steve, 1936-

    [New York] : Hendon Music : Boosey & Hawkes, 1998
    Format: Musical Score Book


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    Tehillim : Three movements by Reich, Steve, 1936-

    New York : Elektra Nonesuch, 1994
    Format: Audio


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    Eight lines : (octet) by Reich, Steve, 1936-

    [Place of publication not identified] : Hendon Music : Boosey & Hawkes, 1989
    Format: Musical Score Book


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    The ECM recordings by Reich, Steve, 1936-

    [S.l.] : ECM Records GmbH, 2016
    Limited ed.
    Format: Audio


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    Different trains ; Electric counterpoint by Reich, Steve, 1936-

    New York, N.Y. : Elektra/Nonesuch, 1989
    Other Authors:
    Format: Audio


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    Works 1965-1995 by Reich, Steve, 1936-

    New York, NY : Nonesuch, 1997
    Other Authors: “…Reich, Steve, 1936-…”
    Format: CD Audio


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    Sextet ; Six marimbas by Reich, Steve, 1936-

    New York, N.Y. : Nonesuch, 1986
    Other Authors: “…Reich, Steve, 1936-…”
    Format: Audio


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    Tehillim by Reich, Steve, 1936-

    München : ECM, 1982
    Format: Audio


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    Six pianos by Reich, Steve, 1936-

    [United States] : Hendon Music : Boosey & Hawkes, 1992
    Rev.
    Format: Musical Score Book


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    Eight lines ; City life ; Music for two or more pianos ; Vermont counterpoint ; New York counterpoint by Reich, Steve, 1936-

    [Franklin, Tennessee] : Naxos, 2020
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    Format: Audio


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    Quartet for two vibraphones and two pianos by Reich, Steve, 1936-

    New York : Hendon Music : Boosey & Hawkes, 2017
    Set of parts.
    Format: Musical Score Book


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    The cave by Reich, Steve, 1936-

    New York, NY : Nonesuch, 1995
    Format: Audio


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    Different trains Triple quartet ; Piano counterpoint by Reich, Steve, 1936-

    [England] : EMI Classics, 2011
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    Format: Audio


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    Sextets by Reich, Steve, 1936-

    New York, NY : Mode, 2018
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    Format: Audio


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    Electric counterpoint : for guitar and tape or guitar ensemble by Reich, Steve, 1936-

    New York : Hendon Music, 1987
    Format: Musical Score Book


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    Sextet : Six marimbas by Reich, Steve, 1936-

    New York, N.Y. : Nonesuch, 1986
    Other Authors: “…Reich, Steve, 1936-…”
    Format: Audio


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    The desert music by Reich, Steve, 1936-

    New York, N.Y. : Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch, 1985
    Format: Audio


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    Three tales Hindenburg + Bikini + Dolly by Reich, Steve, 1936-

    New York, NY : Nonesuch, 2003
    Format: CD Audio


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    Eight lines : octet by Reich, Steve, 1936-

    [London?] : Hendon Music : Boosey & Hawkes, 1998
    Rev. ed.
    Format: Musical Score Book


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    Tehillim : for voices and ensemble or chamber orchestra by Reich, Steve, 1936-

    [New York] : Hendon Music : Boosey & Hawkes, 1994
    Rev. version.
    Format: Musical Score Book