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Steve Reich lost interest in serialism early. A student of Luciano Berio at Mills College, Reich quickly realized the melodic limitations of twelve-tone composition. Serialist rhythm was a different story. Reich was enamored with the processes and repetition inherent to serial rhythm and it helped to form what is, without a doubt, the prevailing link between Reich's work over the past forty years; his complex, innovative use of rhythm. It's absolutely the case with Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ, a well-regarded piece nevertheless overshadowed by what is widely considered one of Reich's seminal compositions, Music for 18 Musicians.
Premiered in 1973, Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ deals in large part with Reich's process of "augmentation", first realized in his work Four Organs. Augmentation is, according to Reich, "the lengthening of duration of notes previously played in shorter note values creating the sense of slowing down the musical motion."......

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