Four Musical Minimalists
La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass

Offers the most detailed account yet of the early works of these four minimalist composers.

Keith Potter (Author)

9780521015011, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 25 April 2002

408 pages, 59 music examples
24.4 x 17 x 2.1 cm, 0.648 kg

'… an indispensable and meticulous survey.' Musical Times

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.

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
1. La Monte Young
2. Terry Riley
3. Steve Reich
4. Philip Glass
Notes
Discography
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: 20th century & contemporary classical music [AVGC6]