New Age music - Influences. Influences reach from meditation music to classical music, world music, ethnic music. ambient music and also prog-rock and Krautrock. However, the musical structures can be understood in relation to many other forms of music that are taken much more seriously. Most New Age music falls under the category of the repetitive or the static which can resemble trance music. There is the Indian influenced minimalism of Terry Riley, Tony Conrad, LaMonte Young which utilized drones ...

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Influences reach from meditation music to classical music, world music, ethnic music. ambient music and also prog-rock and Krautrock. However, the musical structures can be understood in relation to many other forms of music that are taken much more seriously. Most New Age music falls under the category of the repetitive or the static which can resemble trance music. There is the Indian influenced minimalism of Terry Riley, Tony Conrad, LaMonte Young which utilized drones beginning in the early 1960s, and also the music of Ghana (West ...

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Music labeled New Age often is intended to represent a vision of a better future, expresses an appreciation of goodness and beauty, even an anticipation, relevant to some event. Rarely does New Age music dwell on a problem with this world or its inhabitants and is generally apolitical; instead it offers a peaceful vision of a better world. Since most of the music is instrumental, rather than vocal, these interpretations are often left to the listener's imagination. Often the music is celestial themed w ...

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New Age music, New Age music - Influences, New Age music - Themes, New Age music - Significance

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