Following his larger-scale concert and stage works, it was Glass's successful attempt to create a more pop-oriented "Walkman-suitable" work, with considerably shorter and more accessible pieces written for the recording studio.
[4][5] Glassworks was intended to introduce my music to a more general audience than had been familiar with it up to then.
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.
Although rhythmically driven, the melodic implications of "Floe" occur somewhat coincidentally by orchestration.
[9] "Rubric" and "Façades" both appeared in the 2008 documentary about Philippe Petit, Man on Wire.