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ARTICLES RELATED TO Minimalist music - Rock bands influenced by minimalism | | | |  Minimalist music - Rock bands influenced by minimalism: Encyclopedia II - Minimalist music - Brief historyThe 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 ...
See also:Minimalist music, Minimalist music - Brief history, Minimalist music - Minimalist style in music, Minimalist music - Critical reception of minimalism, Minimalist music - Criticisms of minimalism, Minimalist music - Critical supporters of minimalism, Minimalist music - Minimalist composers, Minimalist music - Rock bands influenced by minimalism, Minimalist music - Sources Read more here: » Minimalist music: Encyclopedia II - Minimalist music - Brief history |
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| | | | Minimalist music - Rock bands influenced by minimalism: Encyclopedia II - Minimalist music - Minimalist style in music 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 ...
See also:Minimalist music, Minimalist music - Brief history, Minimalist music - Minimalist style in music, Minimalist music - Critical reception of minimalism, Minimalist music - Criticisms of minimalism, Minimalist music - Critical supporters of minimalism, Minimalist music - Minimalist composers, Minimalist music - Rock bands influenced by minimalism, Minimalist music - Sources Read more here: » Minimalist music: Encyclopedia II - Minimalist music - Minimalist style in music |
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Minimalist music - Criticisms of minimalism.
Minimalist music has been controversial from its inception, and criticisms have been levelled from two other viewpoints specifically.
The first set of criticisms are from proponents of musical modernism who regard minimalism as a betrayal of progress, a banalization of modernity and backsliding into kitsch. They argue that minimalism represents a surrender of "high" art to the values of "popular" art. These critiques mirror other "late modern" critiques of postm ...
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