Steve Reich- Music for 18 Musicians Section 1

Performed by Steve Reich and Musicians

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[playingmusiconmars]

I am getting kind of annoyed by your unqualified comments. Especially calling Reichs music atonal shows how much of a clue you have when it comes to it.

There is no "real" or "fake" music". Music is the organized succession of sound, nothing more, nothing less. As you can see, even Reichs music is able to create an emotional impact on people, so it's "real by your definition".

Now I'n not going to delete any of your comments on my videos, that would be fascist.

[playingmusiconmars]

But please be less of an idiot. Or at least try to be.

[TekranoXx]

atonality is a perfectly good componenet of a piece

[playingmusiconmars]

Never denied that. I actually prefer non - tonal compositions over classic tonality.

It's just that Reichs music, while not being classically tonal, still deliberately has tonal elements in it and shouldn't be called atonal.

[Dan Goguen]

I found a copy of this 1978 vinyl at a good will store when I was in college about 15 years ago. That was my introduction to him.

[coryseyes89]

But an "organized succession of sounds" ...with ...meaning. One could say the same about language - an organized succession of...MEANINGFUL sound. Music, like language, should convey, express, communicate, even provoke meaningful thought. While this composition is not painful to the ears, it doesn't communicate anything meaningful - it's very unexpressive. Nothing about it is intriguing or luring, as if to warrant a relisten.

[Michael Meehan]

This music isn't atonal! It's pandiatonic.

[OdedFriedGaon]

incredible. always.

[mekanikCircadia]

i don't hear anything atonal or "weird noises"-ish about this piece, in fact it sounds very melodic to me.

[TekranoXx]

atonality is used extensively in danse macabre.

[rhinowing]

not this one

[TekranoXx]

indeed but the base repetition in this piece, alot at the beggining falls out of tone and does become atonal on purpose as a way of change in the music, imagine a four beat pattern of c c d e along with a five beat pattern of c c f c a running alongside eachother. the ending a would become minor when it plays at the same time as the a and it would sound atonal alongside the e, the d would sound atonal alongside the e aswell, his music was clever in the timing of this atonality.

[Jim Dwyer]

Atonal? Okay I must be deaf, because I hear tone. It is simultaneously polytonal and minimalistic. Every note, tone, rhythm works in synchronicity.