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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. ... Read more

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makes you ponder what this was all about
The phenomenon of minimalist music I think is better understood from its initial stages, for after market popularity sets in the theoretical fascinations seem to dissipate, seem to become rationalized away as unimportant and cumbersome. If you take all four praticioners here, to my mind only their early works seem to hold any interest at all,it is only the only works that have a "longevity" factor, where we can still find points of interests. For it was in the early works that carried the weight into what we have now.
Musical minimalism as well is a kind of misnomer in that the term began in the visual arts and if you go there you will find the term and its results and achievments has a much more vigorous base of contemplation and export. There simply is more important things happening there, as Donald Judd,the minimalist shrine of cubes and geometric shapes in an old Army base in Marfa Texas or the flourescent lighting schemes of Dan Flavin, the powerful sculptural plates of Richard Serra,or painters abound as Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella and Bridget Riley. There simply is no comparison with the level of conceptual depth and gestural focus, what art is suppose to do, what it did, and how the concept is engaged,and how it responds to its context and art history,or a temporality (how for instance the spirit, ir-religious of course is engaged in Richard Serra, his plates where the human mind simply stands there engaged in peace with his own existence or sense of space and time). Musical minimalism has no equivalent, and it is a shame for it could have had this. La Monte Young's "Well-Tuned Piano", a 9 hour work with just intonation tunings of the piano comes close to the temporal vigours of Judd's shrine I beleive.
With the introduction of opera in the works of Glass well now we are in another dimension, for Glass resorted to traditional classical structures of opera, duets, trios, quartets, (as in Aknathen) this is no longer innovative means. Potter's book draws light on this paradigm here makes you think of these issues what minimalism did and what it is now. Was it simply a fad?, or did it produce sustainable music?, music we can return to once or twice, or was minimalism simply "grist" for the mill of the market, one time, make the cash, take the money and run. Again the importance of minimalism is found in its early repertoire, Reich fascinating threadbare music for four woodblocks was all he needed to write to proclaim a status, or Glass's early music with Farfisa organs and saxophones,"Music in Fifths" or Riley's "In C", or his "Keyboard Studies" are all relevant pieces we can return to unpretenciously.

The late Morton Feldman is of course not here. He had intense knowledge of the visual arts world and his last works sought to reclaim this paradigm for music (his Second String Quartet, and Triadic Memories, For Chritian Wolff) are works scaling long durational lengths a place where minimalism in music seems to be now a beginning point not an end. Had Feldman lived I think he would have written even longer works. Of course Cage's massive work for organ now being realized in Halberstadt Germany, a work lasting years is also a step in the right direction.

music theory exposition, and history too
Potter's book will be best appreciated by those with a much better understanding of music theory than I.However, I learned something about the personal and musical history of so-called "minimalism."(Potter falls prey to some extent to the problem of reifying an abstraction -- having first grouped some things together into a category, then searching for the true meaning of the category.)Is there a torch passed, so to speak, from Young to Riley to Reich to Glass?Glass is the only one to adamantly deny it, but Potter documents the basis for seeing it just that way (including Reich's influence on Glass).

One aspect I am keen to know more about, but which Potter doesn't stress overly much, is the striking confluence of non-Western influences.Young and Riley are both disciples of the North Indian master singer, Pandit Pran Nath, who died in 1996.Reich studied both African drumming as well as the gamelan music of Bali.Glass studied Indian music, after being immersed in serialism.With the European "classical" tradition at an impasse at the turn of the millennium, it seems only natural that the future would lie in creative fusions and combinationswith other traditions.(Not a very original idea, I realize, as evidenced by the recent emphasis of the Kronos Quartet among others.)Minimalism seems by now to be another style that passed into history and critical assessments -- is there an opening there that is being missed? ... Read more

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Chapters: Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Louis Andriessen, Luciano Berio, Michael Nyman, John Zorn, Arvo Pärt, La Monte Young, Bradley Joseph, Django Bates, Juan María Solare, Egberto Gismonti, William Susman, Frans Geysen, Meredith Monk, Rhys Chatham, Hans-Jürgen Von Bose, Wim Mertens, Henry Flynt, Anomie Belle, Joe Jones, John Mcguire, Gunther Schuller, Charlemagne Palestine, Craig First, Carlos Stella, Michael Harrison, Jacob Isaacson, Carlo Forlivesi, Scott Johnson, Andrew Poppy, Catherine Christer Hennix, Sylvie Courvoisier, Obsil, László Vidovszky, Ezequiel Viñao, Jocelyn Morlock, Helen Chadwick. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 272. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in New York City) is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn's recorded output is prolific with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer, or producer. His work has touched on a wide range of musical genres, often within a single composition, but he is best-known for his avant-garde, jazz, improvised and contemporary classical music. Zorn has led the punk jazz band Naked City, the klezmer-influenced quartet Masada and composed the associated 'Masada Songbooks', written concert music for classical ensembles, and produced music for film and documentary. Zorn has stated that "I've got an incredibly short attention span. My music is jam-packed with information that is changing very fast... All the various styles are organically connected to one another. I'm an additive person - the entire storehouse of my knowledge informs everything I do. People are so obsessed with the surface that they can't see the connections, but they are there." After releasing albums on several independent US and European labels,...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=86018 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : In C, Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band, Dorian Reeds, Keyboard Study N° 1, Keyboard Study N° 2, Olson Iii, Music With Balls, a Rainbow in Curved Air, the Church of Anthrax, Keyboard Studies. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : In C est une œuvre du compositeur Terry Riley composée en 1964 pour 35 instrumentistes et créée le 4 novembre 1964 à San Francisco. Elle est considérée comme étant la première œuvre du courant de la musique minimaliste dite également répétitive. In C présente un concept alors inédit : la partition est uniquement composée de 53 phrases musicales, ou riffs ; les musiciens doivent jouer chacun de ces motifs, et le répéter autant de fois qu'ils le veulent avant de passer au motif suivant. Il n'y a aucune contrainte sur le nombre minimal ou maximal de répétitions. Ainsi, la partition de In C tient sur seulement un page, et les représentations de cette pièce musicale oscillent entre 45 minutes et 1h30. Terry Riley note cependant quelques conseils sur cette partition : les thèmes doivent être joués dans l'ordre, doivent être répétés un nombre suffisant de fois (une minute par thème équivaut à 53 minutes de concert), et les musiciens ne doivent pas hésiter à s'arrêter de jouer de temps à autre afin d'écouter l'ensemble, et doivent tirer au maximum profit de l'alchimie sonore qui s'opère entre les instruments. Par exemple, en restant sur un thème si une interaction avec un autre instrument s'opère. De plus, il est recommandé aux musiciens de ne pas prendre trop d'avance ou de retard les uns par rapport aux autres. La pièce peut être jouée par n'importe quel nombre d'instruments, bien qu'un groupe de 35 au moins soit préférable. Cependant, l'enregistrement original de la pièce ne com...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Title: Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass. (Musical Men).
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Terrence Mitchell Riley, better known as Terry Riley (born June 24, 1935), is an American composer associated with the minimalistschool of Western classical music. Born in Colfax, California, Riley studied at Shasta College, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Conservatory before earning an MA in composition at the University of California, Berkeley, studying with Seymour Shifrin and Robert Erickson. He was involved in the experimental San Francisco Tape Music Centerworking with Morton Subotnick, Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros, and Ramon Sender. His most influential teacher, however, was Pandit Pran Nath (1918-1996), a master of Indian classical voice, who also taught La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. ... Read more

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Title: Terry Riley's In C.(Book review)
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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Arvo Pärt, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, John Coolidge Adams, Michael Nyman, Phasing, Renaud Gagneux, Wim Mertens, Ingram Marshall, Alan Licht, Stimmung, Gavin Bryars, Christopher Hobbs, Andrew Poppy, Dave Smith, Terry Jennings, Charlemagne Palestine, Scott Johnson, Michael Parsons, John White, Reich Remixed, the Dream Syndicate, David Behrman, Louis Andriessen, David Lang, San Francisco Tape Music Center, Jon Gibson, Henning Christiansen, Style Tintinnabulum. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : La musique minimaliste est un courant de musique contemporaine apparu dans les années 1960 aux États-Unis, qui représente une part importante de la musique classique de ce pays. En France, le courant est fréquemment appelé musique répétitive, et désigne plus spécifiquement l'ensemble des œuvres utilisant la répétition comme technique de composition. Les principaux compositeurs de musique minimaliste sont La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, et John Adams. L'œuvre considérée comme fondatrice du minimalisme est In C de Terry Riley, composée en 1964. La musique minimaliste est parfois désignée sous l'étiquette plus large de musique postmoderne. Plus qu'un retour à la tonalité, le courant est surtout caractérisé par l'utilisation d'une pulsation régulière et la répétition de courts motifs évoluant lentement. Au-delà d'un mouvement de réaction au sérialisme, alors dominant en Europe, la musique minimaliste marque l'émergence d'une musique américaine novatrice, déliée de ses attaches européennes. Les compositeurs minimalistes ont aussi opéré un retour vers plus d'émotivité musicale, au lieu de l'approche essentiellement intellectuelle de la musique sérielle, ou l'appro...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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