Music develops its own vocabulary, sometimes with obscure technical terms. The series "Des mots et des notes" offers to reconsider the meaning of some of them !
Minimalism was born in the USA in the 1960s, mainly within the Downtown New York scene. The desire to simplify all of the musical parameters contrasts sharply with the abstraction and formalism of Avant-garde music written at the end of the World War II.
Terry Riley, with “In C” composed in 1964, paved the way for his colleagues, Steve Reich and Phil Glass. Repetitions of short motifs, omnipresent rapid pulsations, phasing, improvisation, such are the characteristics of the works of these pioneers of the de-complexification of Contemporary music.
Musical popular science conceived and produced by Yves Fournier, PhD in musicology.
Video commissioned by the Médiathèque Valais, september 2020.
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Keyword: Minimalism, minimalist music, repetitive music, Steve Reich, Phil Glass, Phasing, contemporary music
8 сен 2024
