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10 Minimalism and Strange Bedfellows
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Published:March 2004
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As John Cage and the academic serialists pursued their apparently contradictory aesthetics on the East Coast, another compositional wave was taking shape on the edge of the Pacific. Known as minimalism, it was led by La Monte Young, the only composer in the history of Western music who has so consistently exploited the use of long, sustained notes. Young became interested in just intonation and relied on nature and geography, in addition to the Mormon Church, to compose his music. While at Berkeley, Young's work influenced a fellow student, Terry Riley, who, like Young, was a highly skilled jazz improviser. Riley's In C, written for an ensemble of thirteen musicians accompanied by a light show, created a sensation and marked a turning point in minimalism. One of the performers in the premiere of In C was Steve Reich, a young musician from New York whose own minimalist direction also came from tape experimentation. Reich's Clapping Music can be compared with Philip Glass's One Plus One; both are characterized by simple scores consisting only of tapping or clapping.
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