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)

[edit] Cover artwork

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)

[edit] Importance of Reich pieces

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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)