Minimal music
This article is about a musical style. For other uses, see Minimalism. Minimal music Stylistic origins Experimental serialism process avant-garde Indian classical African traditional Cultural origins Early 1960s United States Derivative forms Krautrock noise rock post-rock postminimalism totalism Subgenres Drone [1] Minimal music is a form of art music that employs limited or minimal musical materials. In the Western art music tradition the American composers La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass are credited with being among the first to develop compositional techniques that exploit a minimal approach. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] It originated in the New York Downtown scene of the 1960s and was initially viewed as a form of experimental music called the New York Hypnotic School. [7] As an aesthetic, it is marked by a non-narrative, non-teleological, and non-representational conception of a work in progress, and represents a new
