Steve Reich. A new musical language - ACE169.4

Notation for Clapping Music (1972). Reich describes how this piece came about. Performance. Score for Music for Pieces of Wood (1973) which Reich describes as an extension of Clapping Music. Performance. Reich talking about the "rhythmic ambiguity" of his chamber music, and the difficulties it posed for the musicians. Music for Pieces of Wood. His solution is to have "multiple candidates for the down beat". Reich at the piano; VO talking about how he composes. Score in progress. Trying out xylophone against tape.