Minimalism
- Created by: DPEE
- Created on: 13-11-14 15:00
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- Minmalism
- Steve Reich
- Live guitar- accomp 7 guitar parts + 2 bass guitars
- Structure
- 3 Layers
- Sustained motif, built around 3 chords
- New syncopated motif intro in bass guitar
- Syncopated quaver motif intro in live guitar plus 4 guitar parts- one at a time
- 3 Layers
- Melody & Texture
- Melody
- One bar motif- repeated from an ostinato
- Motif at diff times makes a canon
- Note addiiton
- Guitar plays a melody made from selected individual notes creating a RESULTANT MELODY
- Texture
- Contrapuntal texture
- Melody
- Rhythm, Metre & Tempo
- Metre
- 3/2
- 3 minim beats per bar
- Minim split into 4 quavers 12 quavers per bar
- Polymetre 12/8 to 3/2
- Rhythm
- Little rhythmic variety
- Syncopated
- Metrical displacement, same motif out of synch
- Little rhythmic variety
- Tempo
- 192 crotchets per min V. fast
- Metre
- Harmony & Tonality
- Tonality
- Largely in E minor some in C minor
- Entirely diatonic
- Harmony
- Hexatonic scales six notes of G major scale
- No cadences
- Final chord is B & E
- Tonality
- Dynamics
- Constant always
- Fades out in no. of places
- Steve Reich
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