compositions
Music In Twelve Parts
1971

Info

Approx. 4 hours

Music by Philip Glass.
Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers.

Cast

Philip Glass Ensemble (voice, winds, keyboards)

Premiere

New York Town’s Hall, 1974.

Notes

Music in Twelve Parts, written by Philip Glass between 1971 and 1974, is a deliberate, encyclopedic compendium of some techniques of repetition the composer had been evolving since the mid 1960s. It holds an important place in Glass’s repertory – not only from a historical vantage point (as the longest and most ambitious concert piece for the Philip Glass Ensemble) but from a purely aesthetic standard as well, because Music in Twelve Parts is both a massive theoretical exercise and a deeply engrossing work of art.
— Tim Page

Scores

Music in Twelve Parts at Wise Music Classical

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