Music for 18 Musicians

Album by Steve Reich & Ensemble Signal & Brad Lubman

Music for 18 Musicians is an album by American composer Steve Reich, released in 1978. The album features a minimalist ensemble work characterised by interlocking rhythmic patterns, steady pulses and gradual harmonic shifts, and it marks a pivotal point in Reich's career as he consolidated techniques of phase-related patterns and ensemble rhythmic interplay.
First released: May 2015

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Pulses
    5:22
  2. 2.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section I
    4:18
  3. 3.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section II
    4:26
  4. 4.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section III A
    3:56
  5. 5.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section III B
    4:05
  6. 6.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section IV
    4:58
  7. 7.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section V
    5:23
  8. 8.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section VI
    4:37
  9. 9.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section VII
    3:42
  10. 10.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section VIII
    3:46
  11. 11.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section IX
    4:25
  12. 12.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section X
    1:32
  13. 13.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Section XI
    4:07
  14. 14.
    Music for 18 Musicians: Pulses
    4:32

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