Glassworks is an album by Philip Glass with 5 pieces, released under CBS/Sony Classical in 1982. It is regarded as being a characteristically Glass-like set of works. Facades has its origins in the film score Koyaansiqatsi, but this piece was finally not used in the film. Philip Glass looks upon sheet music in a portrait taken by Annie Leibovitz. ... CBSs first color logo, which debuted in the fall of 1965. ... Sony Corporation (Japanese katakana: ソニー) (TYO: 6758), (NYSE: SNE) is a global consumer electronics corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Track listing

1. "Opening"
2. "Floe"
3. "Island"
4. "Rubric"
5. "Facades"
6. "Closing"; an instrumental reprise to "Opening".

"Opening"

"Opening" uses triplet eighth notes, over duple eighth notes, over whole notes in 4/4. Formally it consists of three groups of four measure phrases of three to four chords repeated four times each, ABC:||ABC, which then merges with the next movement, "Floe" with the entrance of the horns. A triplet is a set of three items, and includes in particular: one of three babies in a multiple birth a preparation of opal as a gemstone, with a thin layer of opal backed with a dark material and covered with cap of clear quartz in poetry, a tercet (three... In music, duple refers to duple meter. ... Figure 1. ... The time signature (also known as meter signature) is a notational device used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats are in each bar and which note value (minim, crotchet, eighth note and so on) constitutes one beat. ... The term musical form is used in two related ways: a generic type of composition such as the symphony or concerto the structure of a particular piece, how its parts are put together to make the whole; this too can be generic, such as binary form or sonata form Musical... Measure can mean: To perform a measurement. ... A phrase is a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence. ... In music and music theory, a chord (from the middle English cord, short for accord) is three or more different notes or pitches sounding simultaneously, or nearly simultaneously, over a period of time. ... The term Movement has a variety of different meanings: Physical movement between points in space (A to B). The amount of movement is called distance. ...