CH 64 Music

In the 1970s, Steve Reich spent a month playing with and listening to drummers in

Composers of phase music took advantage of magnetic tape recording technologies developed

Composers of process music were dissatisfied with ______ music's lack of harmonic center.

Composers who share a preference for mostly consonant harmonies and small musical ideas that are combined and recombined over long spans of time, with gradual changes to the patterns are called

Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint was premiered by

Electric Counterpoint

Electric Counterpoint follows the

Electric Counterpoint is characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:

Ewe drummers developed a performance method called _______ in which each musician plays a unique rhythm pattern continuously.

Experimental composers of phase music include all of the following EXCEPT

In music, a "hook" is a musical characteristic that attracts the listener's attention.

In phase music, loops are played unaltered.

Minimalism is a more developed style that is influenced by process music.

Playing several copies of a tape loop simultaneously while slowly changing the tape speeds in order to combine the loops in various ways is called

Polyrhythm is associated with the Ewe people of Togo, Benin, and Ghana.

Some composers developed minimalism and a style eventually called process music.

Steve Reich's early phase works were meant to be performed by live musicians.

The scientific rigor of twelve-tone music lent it prestige in both European and American institutions in the

Twelve-tone technique

Which Baroque feature does Reich employ in Electric Counterpoint?

Which describes Steve Reich's musical style?

Which is NOT a musical characteristic of minimalism?

Which of the following is NOT true about Steve Reich's career?

Who is a pioneer of process music?

____ is a technique in which a composer chooses a very simple and harmonically clear musical idea—one or two chords, or a few notes forming a consonant snippet—and repeats it over and over again, gradually changing or elaborating it.