- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Author's Preface
- Editor's Preface
- Writings on Music
- Introduction
- 1 Early Works (1965–68)
- 2a Excerpts From an Interview in Art Forum
- 2b Music as a Gradual Process (1968)
- 3 Wavelength by Michael Snow (1968)
- 4. The Phase Shifting Pulse Gate—Four Organs—Phase Patterns—An End to Electronics (1968–70)
- 5. Some Optimistic Predictions (1970) About the Future of Music
- 6 First Interview with Michael Nyman (1970)
- 7 Gahu—A Dance of the Ewe Tribe in Ghana (1971)
- 8 Drumming (1971)
- 9 Clapping Music (1972)
- 10 Postscript to a Brief Study of Balinese and African Music (1973)
- 11 Notes on Music and Dance (1973)
- 12 Six Pianos (1973)
- 13 Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ (1973)
- 14 Music for Pieces of Wood (1973)
- 15 Steve Reich and Musicians (1973)
- 16 Music and Performance (1969–74; 1993)
- 17a Videotape and a Composer (1975)
- Dachau 1974, by Beryl Korot 17b
- 18 Music for 18 Musicians (1976)
- 19 Second Interview with Michael Nyman (1976)
- 20 Music for a Large Ensemble (1978)
- 21 Octet (1979)
- 22 Variations for Winds, Strings, and Keyboards (1979)
- 23 Tehillim (1981)
- 24 Hebrew Cantillation as an Influence on Composition (1982)
- 25 Vermont Counterpoint (1982)
- 26 Eight Lines (1983)
- 27 The Desert Music (1984)
- 28 The Desert Music–Steve Reich in Conversation with Jonathan Cott (1984)
- 29 Sextet (1985)
- 30 New York Counterpoint (1985)
- 31 Three Movements (1986)
- 32 Six Marimbas (1986)
- 33 Tenney (1986)
- 34 Texture—Space—Survival (1987)
- 35 The Four Sections (1987)
- 36 Electric Counterpoint (1987)
- 37 Non-Western Music and the Western Composer (1988)
- 38 Different Trains (1988)
- 39 Chamber Music—An Expanded View (1989)
- 40 Questionnaire (1989)
- 41 On the Size and Seating of an Orchestra (1990)
- 42 Aaron Copland (1990)
- 43 John Cage (1992)
- 44 Kurt Weill, the Orchestra, and Vocal Style—An Interview with K. Robert Schwarz (1992)
- 45 The Cave
- Jonathan Cott Interviews Beryl Korot and Steve Reich on the Cave (1993) 46
- 47 Thoughts about the Madness in Abraham's Cave (1994) Steve Reich and Beryl Korot
- 48 Answers to Questions about Different Trains (1994)
- 49 Duet (1994)
- 50 Nagoya Marimbas (1994)
- 51 The Future of Music for the Next 150 Years (1994)
- 52 Beautiful/Ugly (1994)
- 53 Schönberg (1995)
- 54 City Life (1995)
- 55 Proverb (1995)
- 56 Music and Language (1996)
- 57 Feldman (1997)
- 58 Berio (1997)
- 59 Three Tales (1998–2002)
- 60 Triple Quartet (1999)
- 61 Know What is above You (1999)
- 62 Two Questions about Opera (1999)
- 63 Ligeti (2000)
- 64 De Keersmaeker, Kylian, and European Dance (2000)
- 65 Steve Reich in Conversation with Paul Hillier (2000)
- Text Credits
- Bibliography
- Index
Six Marimbas (1986)
- Chapter:
- 32 Six Marimbas (1986)
- Source:
- Writings on Music 1965–2000
- Author(s):
Steve Reich
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195151152.003.0035
This chapter presents Reich's thoughts about Six Marimbas. Six Marimbas is a rescoring for marimbas of his earlier Six Pianos (1973). The idea came from a friend the percussionist James Preiss, who also contributed the hand and mallet alternations that are used in this score.
Keywords: hand, Six Pianos, mallet, James Preiss, Six Marimbas
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Author's Preface
- Editor's Preface
- Writings on Music
- Introduction
- 1 Early Works (1965–68)
- 2a Excerpts From an Interview in Art Forum
- 2b Music as a Gradual Process (1968)
- 3 Wavelength by Michael Snow (1968)
- 4. The Phase Shifting Pulse Gate—Four Organs—Phase Patterns—An End to Electronics (1968–70)
- 5. Some Optimistic Predictions (1970) About the Future of Music
- 6 First Interview with Michael Nyman (1970)
- 7 Gahu—A Dance of the Ewe Tribe in Ghana (1971)
- 8 Drumming (1971)
- 9 Clapping Music (1972)
- 10 Postscript to a Brief Study of Balinese and African Music (1973)
- 11 Notes on Music and Dance (1973)
- 12 Six Pianos (1973)
- 13 Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ (1973)
- 14 Music for Pieces of Wood (1973)
- 15 Steve Reich and Musicians (1973)
- 16 Music and Performance (1969–74; 1993)
- 17a Videotape and a Composer (1975)
- Dachau 1974, by Beryl Korot 17b
- 18 Music for 18 Musicians (1976)
- 19 Second Interview with Michael Nyman (1976)
- 20 Music for a Large Ensemble (1978)
- 21 Octet (1979)
- 22 Variations for Winds, Strings, and Keyboards (1979)
- 23 Tehillim (1981)
- 24 Hebrew Cantillation as an Influence on Composition (1982)
- 25 Vermont Counterpoint (1982)
- 26 Eight Lines (1983)
- 27 The Desert Music (1984)
- 28 The Desert Music–Steve Reich in Conversation with Jonathan Cott (1984)
- 29 Sextet (1985)
- 30 New York Counterpoint (1985)
- 31 Three Movements (1986)
- 32 Six Marimbas (1986)
- 33 Tenney (1986)
- 34 Texture—Space—Survival (1987)
- 35 The Four Sections (1987)
- 36 Electric Counterpoint (1987)
- 37 Non-Western Music and the Western Composer (1988)
- 38 Different Trains (1988)
- 39 Chamber Music—An Expanded View (1989)
- 40 Questionnaire (1989)
- 41 On the Size and Seating of an Orchestra (1990)
- 42 Aaron Copland (1990)
- 43 John Cage (1992)
- 44 Kurt Weill, the Orchestra, and Vocal Style—An Interview with K. Robert Schwarz (1992)
- 45 The Cave
- Jonathan Cott Interviews Beryl Korot and Steve Reich on the Cave (1993) 46
- 47 Thoughts about the Madness in Abraham's Cave (1994) Steve Reich and Beryl Korot
- 48 Answers to Questions about Different Trains (1994)
- 49 Duet (1994)
- 50 Nagoya Marimbas (1994)
- 51 The Future of Music for the Next 150 Years (1994)
- 52 Beautiful/Ugly (1994)
- 53 Schönberg (1995)
- 54 City Life (1995)
- 55 Proverb (1995)
- 56 Music and Language (1996)
- 57 Feldman (1997)
- 58 Berio (1997)
- 59 Three Tales (1998–2002)
- 60 Triple Quartet (1999)
- 61 Know What is above You (1999)
- 62 Two Questions about Opera (1999)
- 63 Ligeti (2000)
- 64 De Keersmaeker, Kylian, and European Dance (2000)
- 65 Steve Reich in Conversation with Paul Hillier (2000)
- Text Credits
- Bibliography
- Index