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Steve Reich

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2005 - Sextet / Six Marimbas

2005 - The Desert Music

2005 - Drumming

2005 - The Four Sections / Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and

2005 - Early Works

2002 - Variations

2001 - Triple Quartet

1999 - Music for 18 Musicians (Ensemble Modern)
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1999 - Phase Patterns / Pendulum Music / Piano Phase / Four Organs

1998 - Music for 18 Musicians

1998 - Music for 18 Musicians (Steve Reich and Musicians)

1996 - The Desert Music / Shaker Loops

1996 - City Life / Proverb

1995 - The Cave

1995 - Music for Mallet Instruments

1994 - Six Pianos / Variations / Music for Mallet Instruments

1993 - Another Look at Counterpoint

1982 - Tehillim

1980 - Octet / Music for a Large Ensemble / Violin Phase

1974 - Drumming / Six Pianos / Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices

1970 - Four Organs / Phase Patterns

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1936

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Music for 18 Musicians: Pulses	143,739	4 users
Music for 18 Musicians: Section I	109,438	4 users
Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ	77,612	4 users
Nagoya Marimbas	77,749	4 users
Pulses	208,990	4 users

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Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer. He is a pioneer of minimalism, although his music has increasingly deviated from a purely minimalist style. Reich's innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (examples are his early compositions, "It's Gonna Rain" and "Come Out"), and the use of processes to create and explore musical concepts (for instance, "Pendulum music" and ""Four Organs"). These compositions, marked by their use of repetitive figures and phasing effects, have significantly influenced contemporary music, especially that of his country. The Guardian has described Reich as one of the few composers to have "altered the direction of musical history." Reich often cites Pérotin, J.S. Bach, Debussy and Stravinsky as composers he admires, whose tradition he wished as a young composer to become part of. Jazz is a major part of the formation of Reich's musical style, and two of the earliest influences on his work were vocalists Ella Fitzgerald and Alfred Deller, whose emphasis on the artistic capabilities of the voice alone with little vibrato or other alteration was an inspiration to his earliest works. John Coltrane's style, which Reich has described as "playing a lot of notes to very few harmonies", also had an impact; of particular interest was the album "Africa/Brass", which "was basically a half-an-hour in F." Reich's influence from jazz includes its roots, also, from the West African music he studied in his readings and visit to ghana. Other important influences are Kenny Clarke and Miles Davis, and visual artist friends such as Sol Lewitt and Richard Serra. Reich's music is published by Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishing, www.boosey.com/reich. Steve Reich won the Polar prize ( kind of the Nobel Prize of Music) in 2007.