Philip Glass - Music In Eight Parts (1970)

[@VuykArie]

Very very very good.

[@jesusbraulio9534]

Alucinante!!! Muchas gracias

[@beatrixvantil8623]

magnificent ! ♥

[@bmiller025]

I heard a performance of this piece by the Philip Glass Ensemble in Denver last night, and it was breathtaking. This seems to be a very different arrangement than that. This recording is superb, of course, but I wanted to find a recording of the arrangement I heard last night! It included a vocal tour-de-force! Wow!

[@lluispaloma4059]

They released a recording in 2021 through iTunes, following the way they played it in 1970, with all the quirks, including those first minutes in slow tempo. It seems that they "made many decisions" in 1970, once the score had been written. But if you read the original, unconventional score, it's clear that "music in Eight Parts" is the nearest Philip Glass came to write a "process piece" like the ones Steve Reich was writing at the time. It begins with two unisons and a minor third, and each new chord added to the sequence adds one more voice. It ends sounding like an accordion, and it's stunning.

[@caracteresprimos-ow8ly]

hi. please, do you know where i can buy this score? i looked for in internet but i didn't find it. thanks

[@lluispaloma4059]

As far as I know, it's available only through renting at Dunvagen Music Publishers. I found some pictures of the original score when it was auctioned in 2019 (fortunately Philip Glass managed to buy it). I would want to buy it if someday Philip allows a printed version of the score to be sold.