1. Area of Study 2
Steve Reich – Electric Counterpoint
Minimalism
3/2 time signature (some 12/8 later on)
Phase shifting
Pat Metheny – played and recorded all tracks
Live guitar plays the resultant melody (melody resulting from 4-part canon)
Tonality: E minor, some is in C minor (really modal because lack of D#)
2 bass guitars, 7 recorded guitars, 1 live guitar (3rd movement)
Cells, note addition, note subtraction, panning (bass guitars), ostinato, loops,
SCHOENBERG: PERIPETIE (Changes)
Expressionism/expressionist
Atonal (not serial)
Hexachords
Polyphonic
Haupstimme (principal voice/melody)
Nebenstimme (secondary voice/melody)
Klangfarbenmelodie (tone colour melody – passed around the orchestra)

2. BERNSTEIN: SOMETHING’S COMING
Song from a Musical
Cross rhythms
Syncopation
Diabolus in musica (Devil’s interval – tritone)
Fast tempo
Rests/cross rhythms/accented notes/off beats