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- Worthwhile

I'm enamored by the way Steve Reich organizes this piece. The key of this piece is centered around f minor with slowly evolving chordal progressions. Music for 18 Musicians is a wonderful piece, people should take the time to enjoy the simple yet complex arrangements of rhythms and color of sound. I enjoy listening to the changes in rhythm and harmony.

- Groundbreaking

This album is made through an entirely different aesthetic approach to music, one that set the grounds for much of the electronic music made today. Rather than a song developing and ending with one clear viewpoint, Music for 18 Musicians is created to never really end, or begin. It is a giant, beautiful circle of sound that is to be approached from any angle, experienced, and then slowly pulled away from. The music in itself is a single entity- Slowly changing, like the oceans tides flowing from one part to the next. The album ends just like it began, restarting the neverending cycle

- Hypnotic

Great to listen to turn your active mind off and enter a different state of mind. I came across Steve Reich when reaching about Philip Glass. Simply amazing, cannot recommend this album enough.

- Music for 18, the "Swing" version

Man, compared to the original recording of this piece(ECM 115 from 1976), this one is like, slower, and SWINGS at times! compared to the other version, its rather groovy, though slower. (see the first review for other pertinent info) very suffuse, very mellow, very not fast, very nice indeed.

- KILLING

NIU just performed this piece this past week, and even with regard to its lengthiness and minimalism, it was totally burning. It was like nothing any of us had ever seen, and everyone was totally blown away by it. I would recommend this album to anyone and everyone.

- Life changing

There is so much to be said about this work and I should know... I wrote a 15+ page term paper about it! At first it all sounded the same... It took me about the fifth time listening to the album before I actually started to like it. And then the whole thing opened up... Now, I own another recording of the same work, I want the the others by Garden State and Ensemble Modern, and I even own a copy of the score! Long story short, the piece is similar to the encyclopedic exposure of compositional techniques that Philip Glass accomplished in "Music in 12 Parts", but this time in a work of about an hour. The opening Pulses suggest a progression of 11 chords which are expanded into separate mini compositions, the Sections that follow. Each one makes use of a techique, usually addition or subtraction of notes/beats. For example, Section I adds parts by measures while Section II adds one note at a time. Many of the performance practices are up to the performer (such as the number of repetitions to perform). Holding it all together are the metallophone (the bell-like notes) and the bass clarinet, who give cues (since there is no conductor). These provide signposts that can track your progress through the piece... The maracas in Section VI mark an almost halfway point, for example. All these details cannot describe the lush Grammy Award winning sound (which was admittedly achieved through engineering). It is a beautiful landmark in American music.

- Put you in a trance

I'm glad this is finally available on itunes, as my ancient CD of the 1978 version has been mysteriously regurgitated by my computer. All I can say is, I believe this is the best bike-riding music ever made. Just get on your bike, get your flow going, and this will take you wherever you need to go. Hypnotic/Futuristic/Beautiful.

- epic

quintessential Reich, and one of the greatest musical achievements of the last 50 years.

- Amazing

Reich is God!

- A musical epiphany

The discovery of this piece was probably the greatest musical milestone I achieved in college. Reich received a passing mention in our 20th century theory class; we listened to a few minutes of "Drumming" which didn't particularly grab anybody. On a whim, I googled Reich late that evening and listened to the opening few minutes of the 1976 recording. The rapid blend of blipping marimba into soapy female vocals, the rise and fall of smokey bass clarinets -- it was a whole new musical door opening. It's not for everybody - minimalism is built on on the concept of repetition ad nauseum which just makes minor changes and shifts that much more dramatic. If you're a timbre junkie like me, you will find this piece fascinating. Bravo, Reich, and thanks.

- In my top three favorite compositions.

I purchased the '76 recording in a record store by mistake thinking it was something else in 1985. In 24 years and hearing it countless times, I still discover something new each time. Both the '76 and '99 versions are good in my opinion. I find it completely transporting and after hearing it all the way through uninterupted, it takes me a moment to get my bearings.

- It's interesting, I'll give it that.

My initial response to this new type of music was to wonder wether iTunes had frozen and was just repeating the same sound non stop. It's a very interesting kind of classical music for it has a strange effect on the mind, but I for one don't see it as a helpful effect. This kind of repeating rhythm puts you in a trance like state of almost a high-like euphoria. As a great listener of classical music, I discourage this album. Classical music is known to stimulate the mind and awaken dazed senses, but this...this does the opposite. I guess if you want to enter another realm, then this is great...but I like to stay with my toes on earth and my head firmly in reality.

- Explore rhythm and harmony

Both my oldest daughter (18) and myself (56) love this work. I have two versions: the ones by the Steve Reich Ensemble and Grand Valley State. I do not perceive a significant difference between them, but I am not a serious student of music. However, I am Intrigued by how this uses rhythm and harmony without using percussion or melody in the normal sense. The work opens with a few instruments playing at a constant fast tempo with a clearly defined constant pitch and volume for extended periods. This serves as the heartbeat of the piece and continues without break throughout. They are soon joined by other instruments that play short sets of notes with durations that are simple multiples of this heartbeat. Each time a sequence is played it has a clearly defined and constant pitch and volume. The constant pitch gives me no sense of melody, but projects a strong perception of rhythm. Multiple overlapping sequences generate harmonic and rhythmic complexity. The sequences used change between sections, with the sections termed "Pulses" having the simplest sequences: all notes in a sequence having the same length and duration with no pauses, i.e. a brief pulse of notes. The overall effect I find emotionally relaxing and mentally stimulating. I think the relaxation comes from the constant pace set by the heartbeat and simple form of the patterns. The mental stimulation by large variety of ways these patterns can combine.

- This is where it begins for me as a Reich fan.

I love the work of Steve Reich and this album is the beginning and the end for me. I think his work is difficult to talk about, but for me, this is music that is stimulating to my ears but also to my mind. I find this album the most cohesive and certainly the most engaging. The pulses remind me of many things: Germany, mathematics, intellectualism and I experience it as being both warm and cold. It is a very intellectual exercise and yet it is soothing to the ear. This and "Reich Remixed" are great places to start the Reich experience.

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Music for 18 Musicians Wiki

Music for 18 Musicians is a work of minimalist music composed by Steve Reich during 1974–1976. Its world premiere was on April 24, 1976, at The Town Hall in the Midtown Manhattan Theater District. Following this, a recording of the piece was released on the ECM New Series in 1978.

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