New York Counterpoint- Steve Reich

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Created on: 09-05-13 19:15

What instruments are played (both live and pre-recorded)?

8 pre-recorded clarinets, 2 bass clarinets and 1 live clarinet

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What is the general structure?

Section A (build up in texture), Section B (3 elements- constant canonic texture of 6 clarinets, live clarinet plays resultant melodies, and pulsing chords which fade in and out) and Coda (6 pre-recorded clarinets fade out from their canonic texture.

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What is the overriding texture in this piece?

Canonic ostinato which creates a contrapuntal texture where a build up of 3 double canons in clarinets 1-6. Also a resultant melody in the live clarinet and pulsating reiterated chords in a homorhythmic texture.

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What is the tonality?

Lydian mode on E (transposed) which is entirely diatonic

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What 2 chords does the canonic ostinato alternate between/.

F sharp minor (chord II) and E major (chord I). This plus resultant melodies produces a hexatonic pattern- No D sharp

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Are the reiterated pulsating chords in a homorhythmic texture diatonic or dissonant?

Dissonant

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The two bar ostinato theme can be described as what?

Hexatonic No D sharp

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Where does the live clarinet fade in with a resultant melody derived from the canonic ostinati?

Bar 25

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When all three canonic ostinatos are established, there is a what texture?

Polyrhythmic texture

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What is the metre?

simple triple

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Technology has been used in this work, identify 2 features.

Looping and phase shifting

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