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Piece for Chamber Orchestra (1965) Music in Similar Motion for chamber orchestra (1969, orch. in 1981) Company for string orchestra (1983; orchestral version of String Quartet No. 2 Company (1983), see String quartets) Glass Pieces for orchestra (1983, orchestral versions of "Funeral" from Akhnaten and Floe and Façades, for Jerome Robbins' ballet)
Music in Twelve Parts is a set of twelve pieces written between 1971 and 1974 by the composer Philip Glass. [ 1 ] This work cycle was originally scored for ten instruments, played by five musicians: three electric organs, two flutes, four saxophones (two soprano, one alto, one tenor) and one female voice.
Glassworks is a chamber music work of six movements by Philip Glass.Following his larger-scale concert and stage works, it was Glass's successful attempt to create a more pop-oriented "Walkman-suitable" work, with considerably shorter and more accessible pieces written for the recording studio.
Between 2008 and 2010, Glass continued to work on a series of chamber music pieces which started with Songs and Poems: the Four Movements for Two Pianos (2008, premiered by Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa in July 2008), a Sonata for Violin and Piano composed in "the Brahms tradition" (completed in 2008, premiered by violinist Maria ...
It features music written by Philip Glass and performed by, among others, Kronos Quartet. Sections from the soundtrack have been featured in other films and TV shows, including the piece 'Mishima / Opening', which was used to score the end credits of Peter Weir's 1998 film The Truman Show in addition to an appearance on an episode of Mr. Robot.
A guitarist performing a C chord with G bass. In Western music theory, a chord is a group [a] of notes played together for their harmonic consonance or dissonance.The most basic type of chord is a triad, so called because it consists of three distinct notes: the root note along with intervals of a third and a fifth above the root note. [1]
Glass has stated that he intended to reflect the idea of a "Victorian melodrama" in his music. [1] This piece seems to show Glass's transitioning from ensemble works like Einstein on the Beach to more traditional instrumentation in his later works. Glass has stated that using the word "minimalist" to apply to this work is "misleading" and would ...
The piece quickly became one of Glass's most popular works, [2] and appears on a number of recordings. Gidon Kremer, the first soloist to record the work, says the concerto "is a work typical of Glass, in which a certain enigmatic drive allows the performer to feel both bound to strict rhythm and free in his fantasy". [8]