'Electric Counterpoint' - Steve Reich
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- 'Electric Counterpoint' - Steve Reich
- Melody
- Syncopated melody
- Resultant melody - new melody produced when different parts play their melodies at the same time
- Canon of 1 riff
- Rhythm
- 3/2
- Sometimes 12/8
- Cross rhythms
- Marked fast
- Dynamics
- Consistently quiet
- Use of fade outs
- Form
- Section A Section B Coda
- Sections defined by key change and texture
- Instruments
- 7 electric guitars
- 2 bass guitars
- Solo guitar part
- Texture
- Polyphonic
- Parts gradually build up
- Fade out at end before coda
- Coda returns to 4 part canon
- Harmony
- Suggested E and C minor
- Tonal ambiguity
- Melody
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