Before Minimalism: Some composers felt restricted by serialism and looked for other methods or approaches:
Minimalist Movement: Minimalism is a term applied principally to American music based around the repetition of short phrases. It makes the most of minimal musical resources and is stripped down to fundamental features. Minimalism developed during the 1960s and 1970s on the West Coast of America.
It’s a reaction against the musical style of Serialism.
Although called minimalism the music is far from minimal in length. |