Philip Glass

Both of the scores demonstrate the importance in Glass's music of repeated phrases that are based on variations of related rhythmical structures, creating a sense that the music is almost not music at all but something created through natural actions, like the wind blowing again and again through leaves, each time striking their surfaces a little differently and producing a slightly different sound (http://www.ffwdweekly.com/Issues/2003/0102/cover.htm). Glass's use of repetition has a fundamentally hypnotic effect: We feel as if we were confronted with a cobra and find ourselves swaying in time to the swaying of serpent, waiting for the moment when we will be considered fit to be sacrificed.

Glass's score for A Thin Blue Line - which used a variety of legalistic strategies to help demonstrate that a man convicted of an

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