Music With Changing Parts

by Philip Glass

Music With Changing Parts cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1971
  • Label: Chatham Square
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.97/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A seminal work in the development of musical minimalism, 'Music With Changing Parts' employs electronic keyboards and wind instruments to create shifting, hypnotic cycles. The composition served as a structural stepping stone between Glass's earlier, strict additive processes and his later magnum opus, 'Music in Twelve Parts'.

Genres

Descriptors: repetitive, avant-garde, minimalistic, instrumental, minimal, rhythmic, long-form

Tracklist

  1. Music With Changing Parts (Part One)
  2. Music With Changing Parts (Part Two)
  3. Music With Changing Parts (Part Three)
  4. Music With Changing Parts (Part Four)

Credits

  • Steve Chambers - electric organ
  • Jon Gibson - electric organ, soprano saxophone, flute, voice
  • Art Murphy - electric piano
  • Barbara Benary - electric violin, voice
  • Robert Prado - trumpet, flute, voice

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