Reich's minimalism feautures

Ostinato

repeating pattern

Cells

short motif or part of a longer motif

Phase shifting

one part gets out of sync with another part playing the same thing

Canon

exact imitation

Displacement

motif appears on a different beat of the bar

Reconstructing

breaking down a motif and building it up again bit by bit

Additive rhythm

repeating motifs for a longer or shorter amount of time

Pulsing

no sense of metre; just a sense of pulse

Psychoacoustic

the effect of listening to music that is very repetitive or includes phase-sh

Added note chords

Extended chords

C11- triad with added 7ths, 9ths, 11ths etc

Pedal note

sustained or repeating note while other harmony changes

Harmonic stasis

Unchanging chord over a long period of time

Non-functional harmony

chords that don’t function tonally- dominant 7ths that doesn’t lead to it’s tonic.