Reich- Electric Counterpoint - Movement III
A brief overview
- Created by: Oliver Moodie
- Created on: 08-03-15 15:55
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- Electric Counterpoint - Movement III
- Tempo
- 192 crotchets per minute
- Very very fast
- 192 crotchets per minute
- Rhythm
- Little rhythmic variety
- Metrical displacement
- Syncomation
- Dynamics
- Overall dynamics are constant
- Parts gradually fade in and out
- Context
- Minimalism developed in the late 1960s
- 3 movement piece comprised of a Fast,Slow,Fast form
- Metre
- 3/2 however towards the end some parts move into 12/8
- Polymetric
- 3/2 however towards the end some parts move into 12/8
- Structure
- 1. A syncopated quaver motif
- 2. New motif introduced by the bass guitars
- 3. A more sustained motif built around three chords
- Melody
- Repeated one bar motif
- Ostinato
- Resultant melody
- Additive melody
- Canonical
- Repeated one bar motif
- Instrumentation
- 1 live guitar
- 2 pre-recorded bass guitars
- 7 accompanying guitars
- Texture
- Contrapuntal
- Built up on layers
- Begins monophonic then becomes polyphonic
- Harmony and Tonality
- Entirely diatonic
- Hexatonic scale
- G major with some short Eb major sections
- No final cadence
- Tempo
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