On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:08:13AM +0700, Anh Hai Trinh wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Eivind Michael Skretting
> wrote:
> >>
> >> What do you mean exactly? His A major Prelude is probably the shortest
> >> piece of music that exists (20~ seconds) an
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:29:18PM +0700, Anh Hai Trinh wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Eivind Michael Skretting
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:35:48PM +0700, Anh Hai Trinh wrote:
> >> I think the essence of minimalism is that one take away as much as
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:35:48PM +0700, Anh Hai Trinh wrote:
> I think the essence of minimalism is that one take away as much as one
> possibly can.
>
Then one should exclude Chopin from that definition. In regard to the
"needless repetitions" of Reich and Glass, that is much of what the
style
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:32:15AM +0200, Antoni Grzymala wrote:
> > I hope you aren't suggesting that Mozart *is* minimalist.
>
> He most definitely is (along with Chopin, I'd argue) – at the opposite
> end you'd find Bruckner, Wagner and Berlioz. Flame away, I'm on holiday.
Mozart and Chopin re
