Talk:Music for 18 Musicians

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The introduction to this piece implies that the piece can be played by a mimium of 18 musicians - however the listed intruments amount to 19 - what gives?

Music for 18 Musicians was written for a cello, violin, two clarinets (both players double on bass clarinet), four pianos, three marimbas, two xylophones, a metallophone, maracas, and four women's voices.

--84.203.32.156 22:52, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Did you actually read the article? It explains that in detail. —Keenan Pepper 22:54, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Cover artwork[edit]

There must be an interesting story behind the album cover artwork. Who designed it? Presumably the pattern is related to the music in some way, no? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.41.25.146 (talk) 00:58, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

I believe that somewhere on the album cover and or notes, there is an explanation of the artwork. I don't believe that it corresponds directly with the composition. I'll have to check my album cover. 198.22.236.230 (talk) 23:10, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Cover artwork, named Weaver's Notation, was done by Beryl Korot in 1976 86.214.253.195 (talk) 18:05, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Importance of Reich pieces[edit]

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How are we evaluating the importance of Reich's pieces to the contemporary music project. For example, it seems counterintuitive that the rarely performed Pendulum Music would be accorded the same importance as the best selling Music for 18 Musicians. Hyacinth (talk) 04:03, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Pendulum Music was much earlier, and was among the first pieces that crystallized his ideas of music being a process that inexorably works itself out. 18 Musicians is a great piece, and much more popular, but arguably doesn't break new aesthetic and philosophical ground like Pendulum Music, It's Gonna Rain, or the earlier phase pieces did. —Torc. ^(Talk.) 09:08, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

I believe that Reich himself has argued that Pendulum Music is more important to him than it is to other people, unlike 18 Musicians and Piano Phase, the latter of which is very important to both. 18 Musicians, for instance, could be considered of high importance because it is "very notable within Contemporary music, and well-known outside of it" (Wikipedia:WikiProject Contemporary music/Assessment#Importance scale). Hyacinth (talk) 01:47, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

We may note that the Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker used Music for 18 Musicians, performed by the Ictus Ensemble, for her highly successful piece Rain (French). Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 16:59, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Is this article about the composition or a specific album?[edit]

Currently it seems ambiguous. I think the composition is notable enough to be treated on its own, without reference to professional reviews of a particular recording - which will be response to that specific performance, and not the music in its pure form Ceadge (talk) 14:03, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

This article is without citations[edit]

I'm a user of wikipedia. Not really interested in doing much editing here. I noticed there don't seem to be citations for most of this page. However, I'm also looking at Reich's Book, "Writings on Music" and a lot of the material (sometimes verbatim) looks like it could have come from there. That would be a great place to start for a dedicated Wikipedian... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.126.212.25 (talk) 06:17, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

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