Music in Twelve Parts
(1971-1974) about 4 hours
Music by Philip Glass
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
PUBLISHER:
Dunvagen Music Publishers
REWORK_Philip Glass Remixed on Orange Mountain Music
GlassJukebox on Nonesuch
Philip Glass Ensemble Live in Monterrey, Mexico on Orange Mountain Music
Music in Twelve Parts on Nonesuch
Music in Twelve Parts on OMM
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