Sketching a New Tonality: A Preliminary Assessment of Steve Reich’s Sketches for Music for 18 Musicians in Telling the Story of This Work’s Approach to Tonality

Potter, Keith. 2019. Sketching a New Tonality: A Preliminary Assessment of Steve Reich’s Sketches for Music for 18 Musicians in Telling the Story of This Work’s Approach to Tonality. In: Sumanth Gopinath and Pwyll ap Sion, eds. Rethinking Reich. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 191-215. ISBN 9780190605292 [Book Section]

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This chapter also interrogates Reich’s approach to tonality, at a critical stage of his thinking in this area; the focus on Music for 18 Musicians also allows this paper to act as a “pilot study” for my forthcoming book devoted entirely to this work. The volume here is part of a prestigious Oxford University Press series, “Rethinking…”, which aims to offer new lines of research on familiar figures and topics.