Reich's Electric Counterpoint (3rd movement)
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- Created on: 11-12-16 17:28
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- Reich's Electric Counterpoint (3rd movement)
- INSTRUMENTS
- live guitar accompanied by 7 guitars + 2 basses
- live guitar is amplified
- can all be played live or prerecorded
- TONALITY
- mostly in E minor
- shorter sections in C minor
- diatonic
- hexatonic scales - 1st motif uses 6 notes of G major scale
- MELODY
- 1 bar motif forms ostinato
- melody built using note addition to extend phrases
- resultant melody
- TEXTURE
- contrapuntal
- canon
- HARMONY
- no convent ail harmonic progressions
- final chord is 2 notes - B + E
- ostinati
- STRUCTURE
- defined by entries of ideas/instruments
- 1st section - live guitar + top 4 guitars
- 2nd section - basses
- 3rd section - strummed guitars
- other sections defined by key changes
- 8 sections + coda
- RHYTHM, METRE & TEMPO
- 3/2 ( 12 quavers) later 12/8
- very fast tempo
- little rhythmic variety
- metrical displacement - same motif @ different times
- DYNAMICS
- fairly constant
- parts gradually fade out
- INSTRUMENTS
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