Four Organs
Four Organs is a work for four electric organs (hence the name) by Steve Reich.The four organs, through the duration of the piece expound harmonically a dominant eleventh chord by dissecting the chord by playing parts of it sequentially, firstly taking one note out of the chord and playing it before the rest, then two, and so on, which emphasizes certain tones of the chord; at the climax of the work each tone sounds almost in sequence.
A continuous maraca beat serves to act as a rhythmic framework for the chords to be placed upon.
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