New York Counterpoint (1985)

Abstract

This chapter presents Reich's thoughts about New York Counterpoint. He says that New York Counterpoint is a continuation of ideas found in Vermont Counterpoint (1982), in which a soloist plays against a prerecorded tape of him- or herself. In New York Counterpoint, the soloist prerecords ten clarinet and bass clarinet parts and then plays a final eleventh part live against the tape. The compositional procedures used include several that occur in my earlier music.