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Considered the leader of the American "musical school" of "minimalism", Terry Riley is a figure more closely aligned with the avant-garde than with "minimal music"; if one wished to delve deeper, perhaps the only true "minimalist" of the "score" was La Monte Young. Discover the review
Considered the leader of the American "musical school" of "minimalism", Terry Riley is a figure more closely aligned with the avant-garde than with "minimal music"; if one wished to delve deeper, perhaps the only true "minimalist" of the "score" was La Monte Young.
"In C" is considered the first piece of minimalist music, the one that would give rise to a stylistic current, minimalism, which had some American composers as its pioneers: besides Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and John Adams among the major ones. Discover the review
"In C" is considered the first piece of minimalist music, the one that would give rise to a stylistic current, minimalism, which had some American composers as its pioneers: besides Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and John Adams among the major ones.
In the early 1980s, inspired by La Monte Young's 'Well Tuned Piano', Riley conceived a work for piano 'in just intonation', meaning tuned according to natural intonation (based on the natural succession of harmonics), invented in Greek times but theorized and applied starting from the mid-1500s. Discover the review
In the early 1980s, inspired by La Monte Young's 'Well Tuned Piano', Riley conceived a work for piano 'in just intonation', meaning tuned according to natural intonation (based on the natural succession of harmonics), invented in Greek times but theorized and applied starting from the mid-1500s.
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