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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.
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.
Keith Potter is a Senior Lecturer in Music at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He was the founding editor of Contact: A Journal of Contemporary Music, and is the author of many articles on twentieth-century musical topics. He currently contributes regularly to The Independent.
Music in the Twentieth Century #11: Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass
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Keith Potter
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by Gardners,
Offers the most detailed account yet of the early works of these four minimalist composers.
"Synopsis"
by Cambridge University Press,
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"
by Libri,
Offers the most detailed account yet of the early works of these four minimalist composers.
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