clapping music for two performers steve reich 2 WB U HHA Htmpweat eal silt 12 tag Sinton kt awortinal wiederhater, 2 r a= pled dd dyidd apd dy dain dy Flap ST ay Sly by Slay reer per Herre er phe cre tr trl IT) y Sd 4-dy Dog Hero corn pills ta de pJDdy Sy dy SL yp STD STDS, d, Fla Pproperr creer corer ther corer ee pda daddy LD ft Td y Lda dy yal Tdy SD yb Lng Mer teer cree ocr cr re cere crore cri ‘ pT 5 de Ca Wepre pe prep de ©Copyright 1980 ny Universal Edition (Loncton} Leh, London. Printed in England, UE 16182 LDirections for Performance ‘The number of repeats is fixed at 12 repeats per bar. The duration of the piose should be approximataly 5 minutes. The second performer should kegp his or her downbeat where it is written, on the first beat of each measure and not on the first beat of the group of three cleps, so that the downbeat always falls on new beat of the unchanging pattern. No other aceants shoule! be mace. It is for this reason that 2 time Signature of 6/4 or 12/8 13 not yiven — to avoid metrical accents, To begin the niece one player may set the tempo by counting quietly; “one, two, three, four, five, sik”. The choice of @ particular clapping sound, i.e. with cupped oF flat hands, is teft up to the performers, Whichever timbre is chosen, both performers should try and got the same one so that their two parts will blend to produce one overall resulting pattern. Ina hall holding 200 people of more the clapping should be amplified with either a single omni-directional microphone for both perforiners, or two directional microphones; one for each pertormer. In either case the amplification should bse mixed into mono and both parts fed equally to all loudspeakers. In smalier live fooms the piece may Le performed without amplification. In aither case the performers should perform while standing as close to one another as possible so as to hear each other wall