This album’s lead-off track consists of a solo piano continually repeating four-bar passages of hemiola and is simply titled “Opening.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this album that features six pieces of chamber music, including “Rubric” and “Island.” This album is partially titled for its composer’s surname.
ANSWER: Glassworks
[10m] Another largely hemiolic piece by Philip Glass is “Mad Rush,” which follows five tracks named for this process on the album Solo Piano. A Hindemith work is titled for the “symphonic” form of this process on themes of Carl Maria von Weber.
ANSWER: metamorphosis [accept symphonic metamorphosis or metamorphosen; accept word forms]
[10e] The frequent looping in Glassworks and the Metamorphosis is characteristic of this musical style propounded by Glass. Composers like John Adams and Steve Reich are associated with this repetitive style of music.
ANSWER: minimalism
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