Questions tagged [minimal-music]
For questions about uses of minimalist techniques used by composers like Philip Glass, Terry Riley and Steve Reich.
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Is it possible to write a phase-shifted pattern that obeys the rules of classical counterpoint?
Is it possible to write a phase-shifted pattern in the style of Minimalist phased looping on Gibson Echoplex Digital Pro that obeys all the classical counterpoint rules? Each note of the pattern will ...
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Minimalist phased looping on Gibson Echoplex Digital Pro
I'm working on live-looping minimalist music on a Gibson Echoplex Digital Pro feeding into a second looper, but one of the techniques I can't find a solution for is phased looping:
Both loops play ...
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What is the reason that I don't lose the sense of tonality in these measures
The question itself is rather subjective hence the 1st person pronoun. However, I believe that many of you reading this question agree with me and hear 'Bb major'. If you hear it in a different way, ...
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How do you play this chord from Étude 14 by Philip Glass
I am learning Étude 14 by Philip Glass but I found a very weird combination of notes that I cannot play naturally (and unnaturally). Do I need to practice some weird finger stretching or there is ...
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Is this minimalist? [closed]
Can this piece of music be described as minimalist? Does it portray all of the appropriate characteristics?
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minimalist compositions [closed]
Thanks for all the responses. It struck me that the work of Reich and Glass was/is mathematical in arrangement. If LaMonte Young and Terry Riley started the movement on the coast then Reich and Glass ...
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What is Unison Synchronization?
I am reading the following article
Schwarz, K. Robert. "Steve Reich: Music as a Gradual Process: Part
I." Perspectives of New Music (1980): 373-392.
Here is a paywalled link. On page 385, there ...
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What are the techniques for improvising in the minimalist style?
I've been listening to a lot of Steve Reich lately and I'd like to bring classical minimal music into my improvisational group. I am familiar with jazz, rock and classical improvisation techniques.
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