ELECTRIC COUNTERPOINT 3 Steve Reich. USING KEY WORDS Write a paragraph describing how Reich has composed the first 35 bars of Electric Counterpoint. Use.

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ELECTRIC COUNTERPOINT 3 Steve Reich

USING KEY WORDS Write a paragraph describing how Reich has composed the first 35 bars of Electric Counterpoint. Use as many technical terms (correctly!) as you can. Rhythmic displacement Layering Cell Note addition Resultant melody Multitracking

LEARNING OBJECTIVES To be able to describe musical texture using technical vocabulary To understand the meanings of:  Panning  Counterpoint To be able to give reasons for the title of Electric Counterpoint

TEXTURE Polyphonic More than one part playing totally independent melodies Melody and Accompaniment A homophonic texture with a tune on top Heterophonic Two parts playing slightly different versions of the same thing at the same time Monophonic A single instrument playing a single line with no chords and no accompaniment Homophonic More than one part playing different notes but the same rhythm – chordal, like hymns

EXAMPLES Monophonic Homophonic Polyphonic Melody and accompaniment Heterophonic

Counterpoint is another word for polyphony “The music has a polyphonic texture” = “The music has a contrapuntal texture”

PANNING Left Live Guitar Guitars 1-4 Guitar 5 Guitar 7 Bass 1 Right Live Guitar Guitars 1-4 Guitar 6 Guitar 7 Bass 2 Label the parts in your score according to which side they are panned to

ELECTRIC COUNTERPOINT 3 reasons!

DICTIONARY Counterpoint Panning

ANALYSIS

PREP On the VLE Look up the pieces and bar numbers in the question and decide what the texture is for each one Due date: Saturday