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Other composers whose works have been described as precedents to minimalism include: Jakob van Domselaer, whose early-20th century experiments in translating the theories of Piet Mondrian's De Stijl movement into music represent an early precedent to minimalist music.
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.
This category covers minimalist composers and compositions. Pages in category "Minimalist composers" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total.
Stephen Michael Reich (/ r aɪ ʃ / RYSHE; [1] [2] born October 3, 1936) is an American composer best known as a pioneer of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. [3] [4] [5] Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons. Reich describes this concept in his essay, "Music as a Gradual Process", by ...
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]
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. [1] [2] [3] He is best known for his exploration of sustained tones, beginning with his 1958 composition Trio for ...
With 1+1 and Two Pages (composed in February 1969), Glass turned to a more "rigorous approach" to his "most basic minimalist technique, additive process", [39] pieces which were followed in the same year by Music in Contrary Motion and Music in Fifths (a kind of homage to his composition teacher Nadia Boulanger, who pointed out "hidden fifths ...
Arvo Pärt (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈɑrvo ˈpært]; born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of contemporary classical music.Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented.