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Terrence Mitchell Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician [1] best known as a pioneer of the minimalist school of composition. [2] Influenced by jazz and Indian classical music, his work became notable for its innovative use of repetition, tape music techniques, improvisation, and delay systems. [2]
Minimal music (also called minimalism) [2] [3] is a form of art music or other compositional practice that employs limited or minimal musical materials. Prominent features of minimalist music include repetitive patterns or pulses , steady drones , consonant harmony , and reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units.
La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer, musician, and performance artist recognized as one of the first American minimalist composers and a central figure in Fluxus and post-war avant-garde music.
Erik Satie, seen as a precursor of minimalism as in much of his music. For example, his score for Francis Picabia 's 1924 film Entr'acte consists of phrases, many borrowed from bawdy popular songs, ordered seemingly arbitrarily and repetitiously, providing a rhythmic counterpoint to the film.
Minimal music (4 C, 10 P) Minimalist clothing (14 P) W. Minimalist writers (21 P) Pages in category "Minimalism" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of ...
Critic Edward Strickland argues that Music for 18 Musicians is "the high point of ensemble music of the 1970s by composers identified as Minimalist". [10] AllMusic wrote that "when this recording was released in 1978, the impact on the new music scene was immediate and overwhelming. Anyone who saw potential in minimalism and had hoped for a ...
Julius Eastman (October 27, 1940 – May 28, 1990) was an American composer, pianist, vocalist, performance artist, and conductor.He was among the first composers to combine the processes of some minimalist music with other methods of extending and modifying his music as in some experimental music.
Johnson considered himself a minimalist composer, and was the first to apply this term to music in his article "The Slow-Motion Minimal Approach", written for The Village Voice in 1972. His minimalism is of a formalist type, depending mostly on logical sequences, as in the 21 Rational Melodies (1982), where he explored procedures such as ...