Drumming - SIGNED Leporello Score and LP Record

New York and Los Angeles: John Gibson and Multiples. 1972. Drumming, for eight small tuned Drums, three Marimbas, three Glockenspiels, male and female Voices, Whistling and Piccolo. Signed leporello format score of the American composer's percussion work, described as "minimalism's first masterpiece," with accompanying signed 2 x Vinyl gatefold LP recording. Reich has signed on the final page of the leporello and on the rear of the LP cover and numbered each 164 from the edition of 500. The inside cover of the record features a photograph of the work's first performances in 1971 at the Museum of Modern Art, Student Center of NYU, and New York Town Hall, where the recording was made. Slight fold and light stain on the upper edge of the leporello, else fine. 

Reich's 1971 work Drumming was begun after the composer visited Ghana and observed master drummers performing there. Inspired by the Ghanaian tradition, the work also employs Reich's trademark technique of phasing: two players begin playing a repeated pattern, and one slowly changes tempo until they are out of sync. K. Robert Schwarz describes the work as "minimalism's first masterpiece," also noting that it marks a transition between Reich's earlier, more austere compositions and his later, freer pieces. (15989)

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