Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass (Music in the Twentieth Century, Series Number 11) - Hardcover

Potter, Keith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052148250X ISBN 13: 9780521482509

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

This book offers the most detailed account so far of the early works of Young, Riley, Reich and Glass, putting extensive discussion of the music into a biographical perspective.

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'... an energetic, readable, cogently argued tome, cram-packed with info ... Four Musical Minimalists is impeccably researched, written with enthusiasm but without evangelical defensiveness.' Gramophone

'... a massive achievement, and an absolutely essential resource for anyone interested in the history of minimalism.' Wire

'... an indispensable and meticulous survey.' Musical Times

Reseña del editor:

The American composers la Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass are widely regarded as pioneers of the aesthetic and the techniques of minimalism in musical composition during the 1960s and early 1970s. This book offers the most detailed account so far of their early works, putting extensive discussion of the music into a biographical perspective. The true musical minimalism of these years 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.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 052148250X
• ISBN 13: 9780521482509
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 406