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Minimalism in Percussion

Author : Jonathan Palmquist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Minimalism in Percussion written by Jonathan Palmquist and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minimalism is the last original tonal compositional style to emerge since the early twentieth century. Its constant pulse, short repeated fragments, consonant tonalities, and gradual harmonic progressions are perfectly matched with pitched percussion. Nagoya Marimbas, a marimba duet by Steve Reich, Observations, a piece for two sets of crotales and one-bit electronics by Tristan Perich, and Velocities, a virtuosic marimba solo by Joseph Schwantner, provide three different applications of minimalism in solo and chamber works for percussion. After a brief overview and history of minimalism and postminimalism, this thesis analyzes each piece, examining their form with a non-traditional tonal analysis, as well as their textures, timbres, and musical elements. This is a helpful companion to learning, studying or listening to any of these pieces, as it emphasizes the way the compositional processes operate, explores the composers’ motivations, and also offers performance considerations. Finally, it compares each piece to find whether they are “minimalist” or “postminimalist” and reviews the similarities and differences in their form, style and use of tonality.

The Sound of Silence: Exploring Minimalism in Music

Author : Harry Tekell
Publisher : Richards Education
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sound of Silence: Exploring Minimalism in Music written by Harry Tekell and published by Richards Education. This book was released on with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sound of Silence: Exploring Minimalism in Music delves deep into the captivating world of minimalist music, a genre that emphasizes simplicity, repetition, and gradual change. This comprehensive guide explores the origins, evolution, and key figures of minimalism, uncovering the techniques and structures that define this influential movement. From the pioneering works of La Monte Young and Terry Riley to the contemporary innovations of modern minimalists, this book provides a thorough understanding of how minimalism has shaped and continues to influence the music landscape. Each chapter examines different aspects of minimalist music, from its application in instrumental and vocal compositions to its impact on popular and electronic music. The book also explores the global reach of minimalism, its intersections with other art forms, and its ongoing evolution in the digital age. Through personal reflections, interviews, and case studies, The Sound of Silence offers both an academic and intimate look at the minimalist approach to music, making it an essential read for music enthusiasts, scholars, and anyone intrigued by the power of simplicity in sound.

A Brief History of Minimalism

Author : Mark Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Minimalism written by Mark Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich

Author : Russell Hartenberger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131677676X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich written by Russell Hartenberger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich provides a performer's perspective on Steve Reich's compositions from his iconic minimalist work, Drumming, to his masterpiece, Music for 18 Musicians. It addresses performance issues encountered by the musicians in Reich's original ensemble and the techniques they developed to bring his compositions to life. Drawing comparisons with West African drumming and other non-Western music, the book highlights ideas that are helpful in the understanding and performance of rhythm in all pulse-based music. Through conversations and interviews with the author, Reich discusses his percussion background and his thoughts about rhythm in relation to the music of Ghana, Bali, India, and jazz. He explains how he used rhythm in his early compositions, the time feel he wants in his music, the kind of performer who seems to be drawn to his music, and the way perceptual and metrical ambiguity create interest in repetitive music.

Experimental Music

Author : Michael Nyman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521653831
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book Experimental Music written by Michael Nyman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composer Michael Nyman's classic 1974 account of the postwar experimental tradition in music.

A Day in the Life of a Minimalist

Author : Joshua Fields Millburn
Publisher : Asymmetrical Press
ISBN 13 : 1938793064
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book A Day in the Life of a Minimalist written by Joshua Fields Millburn and published by Asymmetrical Press. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age 30, Joshua Fields Millburn left his six-figure career, ditched most of his material possessions, and started focusing on life's most important aspects. Once he embraced his newfound minimalist lifestyle, he never looked back. Suffice it to say, everything has changed in Millburn's life in the last three years. After his mother died in October 2009 and his marriage ended a month later, he began questioning everything in his life: his material possessions, his career, his goals, his health, his relationships, his path in life. Soon he discovered minimalism. In the three years since the author adopted a minimalist lifestyle, he has written more than 300 essays about minimalism and intentional living. He has written about his journey, his failures, his lessons, and everything he has learned during his transformation. A Day in the Life of a Minimalist is a collection of his best, most important individual writings--rethought and edited specifically for this collection. This 208-page book contains 50 essays about living a meaningful life with less stuff, including "The Short Guide to Getting Rid of Your Crap," "The Commodification of Love," "Letting Go of Shitty Relationships," and the title essay. Collectively, these essays are purposefully organized into nine sections--lifestyle, goals, experiments, clutter, relationships, changes, philosophy, consumer culture, and work--covering a variety of topics, viewpoints, and arguments within those themes. Also included are a special forward written by Colin Wright (the man who introduced Millburn to minimalism) and an introduction by Joshua Fields Millburn, as well as two unpublished essays that can't be found anywhere else: "What If Everyone Was a Minimalist?" and "Work-Life Balance." These essays were written to encourage readers to think critically about the excess in their lives and, ultimately, to take action towards living more intentionally. This collection is short enough to be read in a few sittings, or it can be digested slowly, reading one essay a day for nearly two months, applying its principals each day to your own life.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music

Author : Keith Potter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317042557
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music written by Keith Potter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the music of minimalist composers such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass has, increasingly, become the subject of important musicological reflection, research and debate. Scholars have also been turning their attention to the work of lesser-known contemporaries such as Phill Niblock and Eliane Radigue, or to second and third generation minimalists such as John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Michael Nyman and William Duckworth, whose range of styles may undermine any sense of shared aesthetic approach but whose output is still to a large extent informed by the innovative work of their minimalist predecessors. Attempts have also been made by a number of academics to contextualise the work of composers who have moved in parallel with these developments while remaining resolutely outside its immediate environment, including such diverse figures as Karel Goeyvaerts, Robert Ashley, Arvo Pärt and Brian Eno. Theory has reflected practice in many respects, with the multimedia works of Reich and Glass encouraging interdisciplinary approaches, associations and interconnections. Minimalism’s role in culture and society has also become the subject of recent interest and debate, complementing existing scholarship, which addressed the subject from the perspective of historiography, analysis, aesthetics and philosophy. The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music provides an authoritative overview of established research in this area, while also offering new and innovative approaches to the subject.

Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

Author : Joshua Fields Millburn
Publisher : Asymmetrical Press
ISBN 13 : 0615648223
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life written by Joshua Fields Millburn and published by Asymmetrical Press. This book was released on 2015-12-20 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minimalism is the thing that gets us past the things so we can make room for life's most important things—which actually aren't things at all. At age 30, best friends Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus walked away from their six-figure corporate careers, jettisoned most of their material possessions, and started focusing on what's truly important. In their debut book, Joshua & Ryan, authors of the popular website The Minimalists, explore their troubled pasts and descent into depression. Though they had achieved the American Dream, they worked ridiculous hours, wastefully spent money, and lived paycheck to paycheck. Instead of discovering their passions, they pacified themselves with ephemeral indulgences—which only led to more debt, depression, and discontent. After a pair of life-changing events, Joshua & Ryan discovered minimalism, allowing them to eliminate their excess material things so they could focus on life's most important "things": health, relationships, passion, growth, and contribution.

Minimalism:Origins

Author : Edward Strickland
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253213884
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Minimalism:Origins written by Edward Strickland and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term Minimalism appeared in the mid-1960s, primarily with reference to the stripped down sculpture of artists like Donald Judd. This volume investigates the origins of Minimalism in post-war American culture. The author redefines it as a movement that developed reductive stylistic innovations.

On Minimalism

Author : Kerry O'Brien
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520382072
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book On Minimalism written by Kerry O'Brien and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Minimalism changed everything. When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating hypnotically repetitive music in the 1960s, it upended the world of American composition. Hip, young listeners flocked to a genre that had long been insular and academic, packing concert halls and buying millions of records. But minimalism wasn't just a classical phenomenon: its static harmonies and groovy pulses swept through the avant-garde landscape, shaping the work of experimental mavens Yoko Ono and Brian Eno, radical improvisers John and Alice Coltrane, outre innovators Pauline Oliveros and Julius Eastman, and many others. This book provides a comprehensive, revisionist retelling of minimalism's transformative rise, through the voices of the musicians who created it. Featuring more than a hundred rare historical sources, On Minimalism moves from the style's origins in psychedelic counterculture through its arrival in the mainstream and into its present-day manifestations in doom metal and ambient jazz. O'Brien and Robin curate minimalism's history anew, documenting one of the most important musical movements of our time"--

Dinner with Lenny

Author : Jonathan Cott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199858446
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Dinner with Lenny written by Jonathan Cott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a complete account of the author's twelve-hour interview with Bernstein one year before the classical music personality's death in 1990.

The Wind Band and Its Repertoire: Two Decades of Research As Published in the CBDNA Journal

Author : Michael Votta, Jr.
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457449963
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book The Wind Band and Its Repertoire: Two Decades of Research As Published in the CBDNA Journal written by Michael Votta, Jr. and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For slightly over two decades, the College Band Directors National Association published the CBDNA Journal, a research outlet for all types of subjects of interest to the membership. Following cessation of activities in 2002, Michael Votta, Jr., the Journal's most recent editor, assembled representative articles on composers and their works, historical research and composition analysis investigations, and produced this fine collection of writings. As a source of well-constructed research by some of the country's leading musicians, it fills a much needed place in everyone's library.

Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich

Author : Russell Hartenberger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107151503
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Music at Michigan

Author :
Publisher : UM Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Music at Michigan written by and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 2001 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ambient Music

Author :
Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ambient Music written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Living Through Pop

Author : Andrew Blake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134717601
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Living Through Pop written by Andrew Blake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1956 many people thought rock `n' roll was a passing fad, yet over forty years later , more than ever, Popular Music is a part of contemporary culture, reinventing itself for successive generations. Pop embraces its own history, with musicians from every genre routinely sampling the sounds of the past. present. Living Through Pop explores popular music's history, and the ways in which it has been produced by musicians, broadcasters, critics and fans. In discussing this complex relationship between the past and the present, the contributors investigate signficant moments in music's history, from the Rolling Stones and the Velvet Underground to the Sex Pistols and the Verve, from drum `n' bass to European extreme techno.

The Cambridge Companion to Percussion

Author : Russell Hartenberger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316546217
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Percussion written by Russell Hartenberger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Percussion music is both the oldest and most recent of musical genres and exists in diverse forms throughout the world. This Companion explores percussion and rhythm from the perspectives of performers, composers, conductors, instrument builders, scholars, and cognitive scientists. Topics covered include percussion in symphony orchestras from the nineteenth century to today and the development of percussion instruments in chapters on the marimba revolution, the percussion industry, drum machines, and the effect of acoustics. Chapters also investigate drum set playing and the influences of world music on Western percussion, and outline the roles of percussionists as composers, conductors, soloists, chamber musicians, and theatrical performers. Developments in scientific research are explored in chapters on the perception of sound and the evolution of musical rhythm. This book will be a valuable resource for students, percussionists, and all those who want a deeper understanding of percussion music and rhythm.