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Music in the Twentieth Century #11: Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass

by Keith Potter

Music in the Twentieth Century #11: Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass Cover

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Publisher Comments:

This book offers the most detailed account so far of the early works of these four minimalist composers, putting extensive discussion of the music into a biographical perspective. The true musical minimalism of the 1960s and early 1970s is placed in the wider context of their music as a whole, and considered within the cultural conditions of the period, which saw not only the rise of minimalism in the fine arts but also crucial changes in the theory and practice of musical composition in the Western cultivated tradition.

Review:

"...Potter's relatively comprehensive research of other primary and secondary literature [makes]Four Musical Minimalists a valuable and timely survey. I hope Four Musical Minimalists, for all its strengths, will be only the first of many important looks at the amazing phenomenon of musical minimalism." American Record Guide"...provides a wealth of previously unavailable information and engages in analyses to which future writers on minimalism will be obliged to respond." Journal of Musicological Research

Synopsis:

Offers the most detailed account yet of the early works of these four minimalist composers.

Synopsis:

This book offers a biographical and musical survey of four American composers--La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass--who are widely regarded as the first musical minimalists. While attentive to cultural as well as biographical concerns, Keith Potter's main focus is the music of these composers during the period up to the mid-1970s and he discusses these works in greater detail than any previous publications have attempted.

Synopsis:

Offers the most detailed account yet of the early works of these four minimalist composers.
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Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. La Monte Young; 2. Terry Riley; 3. Steve Reich; 4. Philip Glass.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780521015011
Subtitle:
La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass
Editor:
Whittall, Arnold
Editor:
Whittall, Arnold
Author:
Potter, Keith
Author:
Whittall, Arnold
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Location:
Cambridge, UK
Subject:
General
Subject:
United states
Subject:
History & Criticism *
Subject:
History & Criticism - By Composer
Subject:
Glass, Philip
Subject:
Composers
Subject:
Composers -- United States -- Biography.
Subject:
Minimal music.
Subject:
History & Criticism - General
Subject:
General Music
Subject:
Genres & Styles - General
Subject:
Young, La Monte
Subject:
Young, La Monte Young, La Monte
Subject:
Riley, Terry,--1935-
Subject:
Reich, Steve,--1936-
Subject:
Composers -- United States.
Edition Number:
1
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Music in the Twentieth Century
Series Volume:
11
Publication Date:
April 2002
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
408
Dimensions:
9.54x6.80x.86 in. 1.39 lbs.
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