Abstract is: Minimal music (also called minimalism) is a form of art music or other compositional practice that employs limited or minimal musical materials. Prominent features of minimalist music include repetitive patterns or pulses, steady drones, consonant harmony, and reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units. It may include features such as phase shifting, resulting in what is termed phase music, or process techniques that follow strict rules, usually described as process music. The approach is marked by a non-narrative, non-teleological, and non-representational approach, and calls attention to the activity of listening by focusing on the internal processes of the music. The approach originated in the New York Downtown scene of the 1960s and was initially viewed as a form of experimental music called the New York Hypnotic School. In the Western art music tradition, the American composers La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass are credited with being among the first to develop compositional techniques that exploit a minimal approach. The movement originally involved dozens of composers, although only five (Young, Riley, Reich, Glass, and later John Adams) emerged to become publicly associated with American minimal music; other lesser known pioneers included Pauline Oliveros, Phill Niblock, and Richard Maxfield. In Europe, the music of Louis Andriessen, Karel Goeyvaerts, Michael Nyman, Howard Skempton, Éliane Radigue, Gavin Bryars, Steve Martland, Henryk Górecki, Arvo Pärt and John Tavener exhibits minimalist traits. It is unclear where the term minimal music originates. Steve Reich has suggested that it is attributable to Michael Nyman, an assertion that two scholars, Jonathan Bernard, and Dan Warburton, have also made in writing. Philip Glass believes Tom Johnson coined the phrase.
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music genre | Q188451 |
postmodern music | Q2568406 |
P9185 | AllMusic genre/style ID | ma0000012315 |
P1617 | BBC Things ID | 647ced0d-ae7b-483f-9f62-f790d8573f63 |
P3569 | Cultureel Woordenboek ID | populaire-muziek/minimal-music |
P10565 | Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID | 305685 |
P10717 | Encyclopedia of Ideas ID | minimalism-in-music |
P3219 | Encyclopædia Universalis ID | minimalisme-musique |
musique-repetitive | ||
musiques-minimalistes-et-repetitives-reperes-chronologiques | ||
P9881 | Every Noise at Once ID | minimalism |
P646 | Freebase ID | /m/02r6mf |
P1741 | GTAA ID | 256667 |
P10151 | iTunes genre ID | 1767 |
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P3827 | JSTOR topic ID (archived) | minimal-music |
P8408 | KBpedia ID | MinimalMusic |
P244 | Library of Congress authority ID | sh86001706 |
P4953 | Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID | gf2014026938 |
P8052 | MusicBrainz genre ID | 8d9a00db-0b8b-41ff-9af7-d0f96793bdc5 |
P8189 | National Library of Israel J9U ID | 987007543982005171 |
P691 | NL CR AUT ID | fd993381 |
P7305 | Online PWN Encyclopedia ID | 3941737 |
P3417 | Quora topic ID | Minimal-Music |
Minimalist-Music | ||
P9173 | Rate Your Music genre ID | minimalism |
P2347 | YSO ID | 38311 |
P495 | country of origin | United States of America | Q30 |
P1889 | different from | Minimalism | Q416389 |
P571 | inception | 1964-01-01 | |
P5008 | on focus list of Wikimedia project | Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4 | Q6173448 |
P910 | topic's main category | Category:Minimal music | Q6470122 |
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Q6470122 | Category:Minimal music | category's main topic | P301 |
uri / http://www.wikidata.org/entity/L128280-S1 | L128280-S1 | item for this sense | P5137 |
Q650316 | drone music | influenced by | P737 |
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