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== Works == === Compositions === * ''Pitch Charts'' variable instrumentation (1963) * Soundtrack for ''[[Plastic Haircut]]'' tape (1963) * ''Music for two or more pianos'' (1964) * ''Livelihood'' (1964) * ''[[It's Gonna Rain]]'' tape (1965) * Soundtrack for ''[[Oh Dem Watermelons]]'' tape (1965) * ''[[Come Out (Reich)|Come Out]]'' tape (1966) * ''Melodica'' for melodica and tape (1966) * ''[[Reed Phase]]'' for soprano saxophone or any other reed instrument and tape, or three reed instruments (1966) * ''[[Piano Phase]]'' for two pianos, or two marimbas (1967) * ''Slow Motion Sound'' concept piece (1967) * ''[[Violin Phase]]'' for violin and tape or four violins (1967) * ''My Name Is'' for three tape recorders and performers (1967) * ''[[Pendulum Music]]'' for 3 or 4 microphones, amplifiers and loudspeakers (1968) (revised 1973)<ref name="writings">*{{cite book | last = Reich | first = Steve | title = Writings on Music | publisher=New York University Press | date = 1975|edition=New | location = USA | pages = 12β13 | isbn = 978-0-8147-7357-4 }}</ref> * ''Pulse Music'' for phase shifting pulse gate (1969) * ''Four Log Drums'' for four log drums and phase shifting pulse gate (1969) * ''[[Four Organs]]'' for four electric organs and maracas (1970) * ''Phase Patterns'' for four electric organs (1970) * ''[[Drumming (Reich)|Drumming]]'' for 4 pairs of tuned bongo drums, 3 marimbas, 3 glockenspiels, 2 female voices, whistling and piccolo (1970/1971) * ''[[Clapping Music]]'' for two musicians clapping (1972) * ''Music for Pieces of Wood'' for five pairs of tuned [[claves]] (1973) * ''[[Six Pianos]]'' (1973) β also arranged as ''Six Marimbas'' (1986), adapted as ''Six Marimbas Counterpoint'' (2010) and ''Piano Counterpoint'' (2011) by the others * ''[[Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ]]'' (1973) * ''[[Music for 18 Musicians]]'' (1974β76) * ''[[Music for a Large Ensemble]]'' (1978, rev. 1979) * ''Octet'' (1979) β withdrawn in favor of the 1983 revision for slightly larger ensemble, ''[[Eight Lines]]'' * ''[[Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards]]'' for orchestra (1979) * ''[[Tehillim (Reich)|Tehillim]]'' for voices and ensemble (1981) * ''[[Vermont Counterpoint]]'' for amplified flute and tape (1982) * ''[[The Desert Music]]'' for chorus and orchestra or voices and ensemble (1983, text by [[William Carlos Williams]]) * ''[[Sextet (Reich)|Sextet]]'' for percussion and keyboards (1984, rev. 1985) * ''[[New York Counterpoint]]'' for amplified clarinet and tape, or 11 clarinets and [[bass clarinet]] (1985) * ''Three Movements'' for orchestra (1986) * ''[[Electric Counterpoint]]'' for electric guitar or amplified acoustic guitar and tape (1987, for [[Pat Metheny]]) * ''[[The Four Sections]]'' for orchestra (1987) * ''[[Different Trains]]'' for string quartet and tape (1988) * ''[[The Cave (opera)|The Cave]]'' for four voices, ensemble and video (1993, with [[Beryl Korot]]) * ''Duet'' for two violins and string ensemble (1993, dedicated to [[Yehudi Menuhin]]) * ''Nagoya Marimbas'' for two [[marimba]]s (1994) * ''[[City Life (Reich)|City Life]]'' for amplified ensemble (1995) * ''[[Proverb (Reich)|Proverb]]'' for voices and ensemble (1995, text by [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]) * ''[[Triple Quartet]]'' for amplified string quartet (with prerecorded tape), or three string quartets, or string orchestra (1998) * ''Know What Is Above You'' for four women's voices and 2 [[tamborim]]s (1999) * ''[[Three Tales (opera)|Three Tales]]'' for video projection, five voices and ensemble (1998β2002, with Beryl Korot) * ''Dance Patterns'' for 2 xylophones, 2 vibraphones and 2 pianos (2002) * ''[[Cello Counterpoint]]'' for amplified cello and multichannel tape (2003) * ''[[You Are (Variations)]]'' for voices and ensemble (2004) * ''[[For Strings (with Winds and Brass)]]'' for orchestra (1987/2004) * ''[[Variations for Vibes, Pianos, and Strings]]'' dance piece for three string quartets, four vibraphones, and two pianos (2005) * ''[[Daniel Variations]]'' for four voices and ensemble (2006) * ''[[Double Sextet]]'' for 2 violins, 2 cellos, 2 pianos, 2 vibraphones, 2 clarinets, 2 flutes or ensemble and pre-recorded tape (2007) * ''[[2Γ5]]'' for 2 drum sets, 2 pianos, 4 electric guitars and 2 bass guitars (2008)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuymniDVHEs |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/BuymniDVHEs| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=2x5 performed by Anton Glushkin and friends|website=[[YouTube]] |date=May 25, 2020 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> * ''[[Mallet Quartet]]'' for 2 marimbas and 2 vibraphones or 4 marimbas (or solo percussion and tape) (2009) * ''[[WTC 9/11]]'' for string quartet and tape (2010) * ''Finishing the Hat'' for two pianos (2011) * ''[[Radio Rewrite]]'' for ensemble (2012) * ''Quartet'' for two vibraphones and two pianos (2013) * ''Pulse'' for winds, strings, piano and electric bass (2015) * ''Runner'' for large ensemble (2016) * ''For Bob'' for piano (2017) * ''Music for Ensemble and Orchestra'' (2018)<ref>{{cite news |title=New Steve Reich Work for Orchestra to Premiere in Fall 2018 |url=https://www.boosey.com/cr/news/New-Steve-Reich-Work-for-Orchestra-to-Premiere-in-Fall-2018/101141 |work=Boosey & Hawkes |date=March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717183458/https://www.boosey.com/cr/news/New-Steve-Reich-Work-for-Orchestra-to-Premiere-in-Fall-2018/101141 |archive-date=July 17, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * ''[[Reich Richter PΓ€rt|Reich/Richter for large ensemble]]'' (2019) *''Traveler's Prayer'' for 2 tenors, 2 sopranos, 2 vibraphones, 1 piano, 4 violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos (2020) *''Jacob's Ladder'' for 4 vocalists and large ensemble (2023) === Selected discography === * ''Live/Electric Music'', ([[Columbia Records|Columbia]], 1968) * ''[[Four Organs]]'' for four electric organs and maracas ([[Shandar]], 1970; recorded again for [[Angel Records|Angel]], 1973) * ''Music for 18 Musicians'' ([[ECM Records|ECM]], 1978); later: Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble ([[Innova Recordings|Innova]]), [[Ensemble Modern]] (RCA); [[Ensemble Signal]], Brad Lubman [[harmonia mundi]] * ''Radio Rewrite'', Ensemble Signal, Brad Lubman harmonia mundi * ''Double Sextet'', Ensemble Signal, Brad Lubman harmonia mundi * ''Drumming''. Steve Reich and Musicians (a few recordings: John Gibson + Multiples, 1971; [[Deutsche Grammophon]] and [[Nonesuch Records|Nonesuch]]) [[So Percussion]] ([[Cantaloupe Music|Cantaloupe]]) * ''Music for 18 Musicians''. Steve Reich and Musicians (Two recordings: ECM and Nonesuch, 1978), Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble ([[Innova Recordings|Innova]]), [[Ensemble Modern]] (RCA). * ''[[Octet/Music for a Large Ensemble/Violin Phase]]''. Steve Reich and Musicians (ECM, 1980) * ''Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards/Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ/ Six Pianos''. [[San Francisco Symphony Orchestra]], [[Edo de Waart]], Steve Reich & Musicians ([[Philips Records|Philips]], 1984) * ''[[Tehillim (Reich)|Tehillim]]/[[The Desert Music]]'' (ECM Records, 1982); [[Alarm Will Sound]] and OSSIA, Alan Pierson (Cantaloupe) * ''Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint''. Kronos Quartet, [[Pat Metheny]] (Elektra Nonesuch, 1989) * ''Steve Reich: Works 1965β1995''. Various performers (Nonesuch, 1997). * ''Piano Phase'', transcribed for guitar, Alexandre GΓ©rard (Catapult) * ''[[Reich Remixed]]'', (Nonesuch, 1999) * ''You Are (Variations)/Cello Counterpoint''. [[Los Angeles Master Chorale]], Grant Gershon, Maya Beiser (Nonesuch, 2005) * ''[[Daniel Variations]]'', with ''Variations for Vibes, Pianos and Strings''. [[London Sinfonietta]], Grant Gershon, Alan Pierson (Nonesuch, 2008) * ''[[Double Sextet/2Γ5]]'', [[Eighth Blackbird]] and [[Bang on a Can]] (Nonesuch, 2010) * ''Radio Rewrite'', [[Alarm Will Sound]], [[Jonny Greenwood]], Vicky Chow (Nonesuch, 2014) * ''Pulse β Quartet'', [[International Contemporary Ensemble]], [[Colin Currie Group]] (Nonesuch, 2018) ===Filmography=== * ''Phase to Face'', a film documentary about Steve Reich by Eric Darmon & Franck Mallet (EuroArts, 2011) [https://web.archive.org/web/20110426210115/http://www2.euroarts.com/artikel/dvd/?id=005812_steve_reich_phase_to_face DVD] === Books === * {{cite book | last = Reich | first = Steve | title = Writings About Music | publisher = Press of the [[Nova Scotia College of Art and Design]] | year = 1974 | location = Halifax | isbn = 978-0-8147-7358-1 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/writingsaboutmus0000reic|ref=none}} * {{cite book | last = Reich | first = Steve | editor= Hillier, Paul | title = Writings on Music, 1965β2000 | publisher=Oxford University Press | date = April 1, 2002 | location = Oxford | isbn = 978-0-19-511171-2|ref=none}} * {{cite book | last = Reich | first = Steve | title = Conversations | publisher = Hanover Square Press | year = 2022 | location = New York City | isbn = 978-1-335-42572-0 | url = https://www.harpercollins.com/products/conversations-steve-reich?variant=39331893018658}}
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