Steve Reich - Music for Mallet Instruments | Текст песни

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• Steve Reich
• Music for Mallet Instruments

The piece is scored for glockenspiels, marimbas, metallophone (vibraphone without resonators), women's voices, and organ.

The piece is in four sections, played without a break, marked off by changes in key and meter: 1) F dorian, in 3/4 time; 2) A flat dorian, in 2/4; 3) B flat minor, in 3/4; and 4) D flat, in 3/4.

The piece involves two interrelated musical processes: the building up of a duplicate of a preexisting pattern played by the marimbas and the glockenspiels, and the augmenting (lengthening of the duration of notes) of repeated chord cadences of the women's voices and organ. The women's voices sing a simple vowel sound, "ee," doubling upper notes of chords played by the organ.