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Minimalistic and post-minimalistic practice.
Louis Andriessen is a post-minimal composer.
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“Jonathan Bernard’s article ‘Minimalism, Post-minimalism, and the Resurgence Tonality in Recent American Music’.
“Nevertheless, the. Very much complicated matter of musical definition of minimalism is in fact quite simply summarised in an interesting, single article by Tom Johnson” Johnson described minimalism as “it has lot to do with repetition (...) it has a lot to do with tiny variation (...) it has something to do with hyper-clarity (...) it has something to do with encouraging more subtle perceptions (...) it has something to do with making music less dramatic (...) it stems partly from certain Asian and African attitudes”
“In the words of Johnson, ‘it is not really about ideas, and it can’t really be explained in words. It can only be demonstrated. And even then, every demonstration is going to be a little different, and no one demonstration will ever be definitive.’
“In the words of the composers himself [Philip Glass], ‘Glassworks was intended to introduce my music to a more general audience that had been familiar with it upo then’ Incidentaly, Reich was also influenced hugely by Jazz in later works. What’s more, this also questions the debatable matter of defining post-minimalism. This then leads into the question of how to understand and define the distinction between the two genres.
In response to last paragraph, I believe that post-minimalis music is influenced not only by the minimalists but also influenced by many others genres as serial music, jazz, world music, pop and folkloric music.
“therefore, besides the repetitious and less dramatic elements in the music, the incorporations of other música styles create a richer harmonies and different musical colours. For example, many composers include rock, jazz, world music, fol, sound art or even the classical western art music within the minimalist foundation.”
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There is a connection between Andriessen and Stravinsky
On last page: “Michael Zbyszy fski, ‘it is the quotation of and subsequent dialogue between disparate musical styles that distinguishes the music of Andriessen”
In response to the last sentence of last page, Andriessen, is considerable a post-minimal composer, however he use ‘shopping list’ [he goes through the supermarket corridors and looking what he need to create a soup] to increase his post-minimalistic practice.