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Postminimalism is an art term coined (as post-minimalism) by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971 [1] and used in various artistic fields for work which is influenced by, or attempts to develop and go beyond, the aesthetic of minimalism. [2] The expression is used specifically in relation to music and the visual arts, but can refer to any field using ...
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Post-Minimalism. 1,441 releases. Seeks to push Minimalism 's linear composition style forward, and takes in influences from genres such as Jazz, Traditional Folk Music, and others. Read more.
Music After Minimalism. An Essay on Postminimal and Totalist Music. By Kyle Gann. Written for the program. of a 1998 Minimalism Festival of the. Berliner Gesellschaft fur Neue Musik. Being asked to write about the current state of minimalism is like being asked if you've stopped beating your wife. You can't answer without contradicting yourself.
Post-minimalism is a music genre that emerged in the late 20th century as a reaction to the strict rules of minimalism. It retains the repetitive patterns and tonal harmonies of minimalism but adds more emotional depth and complexity. The genre often features classical instruments, electronic elements, and vocals.
As a label for trends in music history since 1970, the term ‘post-minimalism’ has, at first, a seductively familiar ring – if by ‘music history’ we mean the succession of compositional styles conceptualized as a linear progression, most memorably analogized by Donald Francis Tovey as ‘the mainstream of music’.
Sep 28, 2016 · DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199757824-0188. Introduction. In the history of late 20th-century music, “minimalism” is the general label for a diverse set of repetitive, modular, determinist, and process-oriented tendencies within the world of postwar American experimental music.
