Steve Reich
|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 = [http://www.stevereich.com/ www.stevereich.com] }}Stephen Michael Reich ( ; better-known as Steve Reich, born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who is known for his contribution to the development 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). The 1978 recording ''Music for 18 Musicians'' 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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The desert music : 1984 : for chorus and orchestra / by Reich, Steve, 1936-
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The desert music by Reich, Steve, 1936-
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Music for mallet instruments ; Music for pieces of wood ; Sextet by Reich, Steve, 1936-
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Drumming ; Six pianos ; Music for mallet instruments, voices and organ by Reich, Steve, 1936-
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Clapping music / by Reich, Steve, 1936-
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Piano phase / by Reich, Steve, 1936-
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Works 1965-1995 by Reich, Steve, 1936-
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Tehillim : for voices and ensemble or chamber orchestra / by Reich, Steve, 1936-
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18 by Reich, Steve, 1936-
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Music for pieces of wood / by Reich, Steve, 1936-
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Writings on music, 1965-2000 / by Reich, Steve, 1936-
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Six marimbas/ by Reich, Steve, 1936-
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Minimalism : Vermont counterpoint ; Eight lines ; New York counterpoint ; Four organs / by Reich, Steve, 1936-
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Eight lines: Octet / by Reich, Steve, 1936-
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Music for 18 musicians: for ensemble / by Reich, Steve, 1936-
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Six pianos/ by Reich, Steve, 1936-
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Different trains: for string quartet and pre-recorded performance tape / by Reich, Steve, 1936-
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Variations for winds, strings and keyboards/ by Reich, Steve, 1936-
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Tehillim. by Reich, Steve, 1936-
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Piano phase: [for two pianos or two marimbas] / by Reich, Steve, 1936-
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