Summary
Whatever you think of Minimalism - a cheap and cheerful musical gimmick or legitimate antidote to expressionist abstraction after the Second World War - it remains one of the most significant and universally influential musical styles to emerge in recent times.
Its fundamental simplicity - or radical reductive repetition, to use a well-worn description - has given it cult status across just about every genre of music, from its classical roots in the 1960s New York prototypes of Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass to rock, pop, punk and even jazz, not forgetting the glitzy world of Hollywood soundtracks, in which Michael Nyman is Britain's foremost proponent.See the full content of this document
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Classical & Opera: Less Is More
How many of us grew up with Mike Oldfield's seminal 1973 album Tubular Bells, which effectively introduced the idea of minimalism in a rock/pop context, as well as finding its way onto the soundtrack of cult movie The Exorcist? Brian Eno took things even furt...
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