Terry Riley’s In C consists of fifty-three musical ‘fragments’, which range from single notes, repeated notes and short melodic phrases. Over a pulsating ‘C’ (though this is optional), performers move from one to the other, the piece terminating when all have reached the final two-note figure.
Riley’s In C has become a ‘classic’ of both minimalism (probably the first such composition to achieve comparatively wide exposure, not least via a composer-led CBS recording made in 1968) and of ‘communal’ decision-making as regards performance given that each performer decides when he or she should move onto the next musical segment.
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