Early minimalists include: David Behrman Gavin Bryars Cornelius Cardew Tony Conrad Jon Gibson Philip Glass Terry Jennings Petr Kotik (born in Czechoslovakia) Douglas Leedy Richard Maxfield Robert Moran Phill Niblock Pauline Oliveros Charlemagne Palestine Steve Reich Terry Riley Howard Skempton ...

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The most identifiable traits of minimalism in music are the use of repeated motivic fragments, presented unaltered in themselves or in slow transformations, to establish a harmonic texture. While this is not unprecedented in itself--Richard Wagner would use an arpeggiated E-flat as the basis for the opening of his opera Das Rheingold--the pervasiveness of the technique, and the use of layering and phase of these fragments which is identifiable as "minimalist". This is related to, but not the same as, repetition of whole sections of music, ag ...

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Akhnaten is an opera based on the life and religious convictions of the pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), written by the foremost exponent of minimalist music, Philip Glass, and first performed in 1984 by the Stuttgart Opera. Editorial note: the composer uses the spelling Akhnaten, while the more conventional variant is Akhenaten. Given the nature of Egyptian hieroglyphics, the absence of a vowel is not terribly important. In this article the first version ...

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Chillage People were one of the first live bands to work in the genre known as chill out (music). Formed in 1998, they were influenced by groups as such as Leftfield, Massive Attack, and hit on the idea of performing live music in the chill out rooms in nightclubs. Band member Dr. Chill had studied with minimalist composer Gavin Bryars, and for many years had been writing electronic ambient music influenced by early techno, KLF, the Orb, John Cage, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd. Singer Tegwen Roberts, bass player Graham MacElearney and Guita ...

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20th century classical music, the classical music of the 20th century, was extremely diverse, beginning with the late Romantic style of Sergei Rachmaninoff and the Impressionism of Claude Debussy, and ranging to such distant sound-worlds as the complete serialism of Pierre Boulez, the simple triadic harmonies of minimalist composers such as Steve Reich, and Philip Glass, the musique concrète of Pierre Schaeffer, the microtonal music adopted by Harry Pa ...

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The White Stripes are a minimalist rock/blues duo from Detroit, composed of Jack White on guitar and lead vocals, and Meg White on drums. The group rose to prominence with the albums White Blood Cells and Elephant. The White Stripes - The Beginning White Stripes and De Stijl albums. The White Stripes were formed in Detroit on July 14, 1997 (see 1997 in music). For several years, even after touring with Pavement and Sleater-Kinney, they were a struggling local band. During ...

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To many people Mbira music appears extremely repetitive, or cyclic. However, in most Mbira music, there are minute variations, suggestive of the minimalist movement in western music (for example Philip Glass et al). As with all African music, rhythm plays an important part. The rhythms are often quite intricate and to some extent dictate the form of the melody. Mbira - Shona mbira music. Traditional Shona Mbira music is typically composed to two different pa ...

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Due to the short lived limitations of adding a musical score to a films soundtrack, during 1930 and 1931, no score had ever been composed specifically for the film. In 1998 minimalist composer Philip Glass was commissioned to compose an original score for the classic film. The score was performed by the Kronos Quartet under direction of Michael Riesman. Of the project, Glass said: "The film is considered a classic. I felt the score needed to evoke the feeling of the world of the 19th century — for that reason I decid ...

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Early on, Reich was influenced by fellow minimalist Terry Riley. Riley's loosely structured aleatoric work In C combines simple musical patterns, offset in time, to create a slowly shifting, cohesive whole. Reich adopted this approach to compose his first major work, It's Gonna Rain. Written in 1965, It's Gonna Rain is made up of recordings of a sermon about the end of the world given by the African American Pentecostal preacher Brother Walter. The sermon was transferred to multiple tape loops played in and o ...

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The word "minimalism" was first used in relation to music in 1968 by Michael Nyman in a review of Cornelius Cardew's piece The Great Digest. Nyman later expanded his definition of minimalism in music in his 1974 book Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond. Tom Johnson, one of the few composers to self-identify as minimalist, also claims to have been first to use the word as new music critic for the Village Voice. He describes "minimalism" (1989, p. 5): "The idea of minimalism is much larger than most people realize. I ...

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