Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass (Music in the Twentieth Century)
by Keith Potter
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Author: Keith PotterEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-06-03
ISBN: 0521015014
Number of pages: 408
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book Review: Really about 3.5 stars
Summary: 3 Stars
This is an important book, in so far as it is the only one published so far that encompasses and looks at the 'general' techniques of the four most influential minimalists.
Although brilliantly written (it doesn't, to its credit, feel like an academic book) It feels as though Potter has nothing else to say about the works themselves. He just looks at the basic compositional development of the composers and traces this to there earliest most successfull work (e.g 'Music for 18 musicians' for Reich and 'Einstein on the Beach' for Glass) and how the techniques have been applied.
This is, as i've said, an important book in so far as it's a rough guide to 'Minimalist' music, however it doesn't attempt to analyse or find approaches to analyse, talk about or contextulise Minimal music then and now.
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