American Minimal Music

The music of Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Steve Reich and Philip Glass are dealt with in this book, and an ideological and historical background to minimal music is also provided.

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128 pages

• Preface by Michael Nyman
• Part One: American Minimal Music
• 1.1 La Monte Young
• 1.2 Terry Riley
• 1.3Steve Reich
• 1.4 Philip Glass
• 1.5 Basic Concepts of Minimal Music
• Part Two: The Historical Developments of BasicConcepts
• 2.1 Arnold Schoenberg
• 2.2 Webern and Post-serialism
• 2.3 Stockhausen
• 2.4 John Cage
• PartThree: Ideology
• 3.1 T W Adorno
• 3.2 Libidinal Philosophy
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements