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Encyclopedia: Minimalist music
Minimalist music is an originally American genre of experimental or Downtown music named in the 1960s based mostly in consonant harmony, steady pulse (if not immobile drones), stasis and slow transfor...
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Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. As a specific movement in the arts it is identified with developments in post-World War II Western Art, most strongly with American visual...
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Minimalist music (Mi-ni-mul-ist MYOO-zik)
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By the 1990s most minimalist composers had moved on to less minimal styles, and music critics considered minimalism in its original formulation to be largely dead. Minimalist music is an originally American genre of experimental or Downtown music named in the 1960s based mostly in consonant harmony,
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Minimalist music has been around for a long time in other cultures, but its spread into Western music and art began in the mid-1900's. Like many other kinds of modern music, some people find minimalist music difficult to listen to. This is because minimalism is not based on inidividual notes but rather on musical patterns.
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Welcome to the web site for the Society for Minimalist Music. The SMM was formed in September, 2007, at the First International Conference on Music and Minimalism, The Society’s interests are not limited to the music of that period, but also to ensuing streams of music developed from minimalist origins,
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It does not follow that any insult is intended to the discs listed here. I listen to them, too. Also, the boundaries between postminimal and totalist music are pretty porous, and it could be arguable which side of that line some of these should be on. Michael Byron: Music of Nights Without Moon or Pearl (Cold Blue CB0002)
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Minimalist art frequently takes the form of installation or sculpture, for example with Donald Judd, Carl Andre Dan Flavin and Sol LeWitt. However, there are also a number of minimalist painters, such as Ellsworth Kelly, and Frank Stella.
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The old joke about Minimalist Music goes: "Knock knock. Who's there? Knock knock. Who's there? Knock knock.
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