Sextet

This new study score of Steve Reich’s Sextet for two pianos and percussion joins the prestigious Hawkes Pocket Score series. The work has been toured extensively by Steve Reich & Musicians and the Canadian percussion ensemble Nexus. Reaching its definitive form in 1985, the score is full of Reich’s characteristic pulsing energy and has been successfully set to dance by choreographers including Laura Dean. Sextet has been recorded by Steve Reich & Musicians and Nexus for Nonesuch.

• Instruments: 2pft[=2elec.pft(synth)].-perc(4):pft/2vib(bowed)/3marimba/tam-t/click sticks/2BD/crot (+ amplification)
• This work requires additional technological components and/or amplification.