Music for 18 Musicians

Album by Steve Reich & Ensemble Links & Rémi Durupt

Music for 18 Musicians is a composition by American composer Steve Reich, completed and premiered in 1976. Rooted in musical minimalism, the work uses interlocking repeating patterns, steady pulses, phased rhythmic cells and shifting harmonic cycles performed by a chamber-sized ensemble of voices and instruments, and it marks a pivotal development in Reich's move towards ensemble-based phasing and sustained process music within late 20th-century contemporary music.

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  1. 1.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Pulses
    4:36
  2. 2.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section I
    3:33
  3. 3.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section II
    4:35
  4. 4.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section IIIA
    3:21
  5. 5.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section IIIB
    3:35
  6. 6.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section IV
    4:54
  7. 7.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section V
    5:52
  8. 8.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section VI
    3:42
  9. 9.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section VII
    3:18
  10. 10.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section VIII
    2:42
  11. 11.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section IX
    4:45
  12. 12.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section X
    1:21
  13. 13.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section XI
    4:22
  14. 14.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Pulses
    3:56

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