drives the tempo in these movements. In true Reich style, the paired movements share a chord cycle. The first movement does not open with pulses (as in many of Reich's other pieces), but with a chorale. This same chorale appears in a slightly more dissonant voicing at the end of the fifth movement, leading the final chord which ends on an ambiguous C dominant/minor seventh chord. References Reich, Steve. 1995. City Life. New York: Hendon Music/Boosey & Hawkes. Reich, Steve. Liner Notes. Proverb/Nagoya Marimba/City Life. CD. Nonesuch Records, 1996. Compositions by Steve Reich 1995 compositions