MUS M 402 1st Edition Lecture 36 Outline of Last Lecture I Music of the 1960s Outline of Current Lecture I II Minimalism Post minimalism Current Lecture I Minimalism a Minimalism pattern and process music i A style in which materials are reduced to a minimum and procedures are simplified so that what is going on in the music is immediately apparent ii Non narrative that is it avoids all dramatic devices such as contrast opposition climax patterns of tension and release large scale form etc iii Repetition may be used to narrow the focus to a single musical cell so that the focus shifts away from countering and development to the musical object itself iv Often diatonic b Minimalism according to La Monte Young b 1935 i That which is created with a minimum of means ii Concentrated and delimited so as to consist of a single event or object iii Looping the technique of repeating the same sound over and over again and just looping the sound c Steve Reich b 1936 i Phasing a compositional technique in which two parts identical in content but slightly different in tempo are played simultaneously such that they gradually shift out of sync with one another 1 Discovered first by Terry Riley though Reich claims to have come upon it first 2 Can be used either by electronic tape or in an instrumental context II Post minimalism a musical style that uses techniques of minimalism in combination with traditional methods more varied material and greater expressivity
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