Four musical minimalists [ Texto impreso] : La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass / Keith Potter.

1. La Monte Young: Early years ; Towards serialism, and away from it ; Berkeley and Darmstadt: towards Cage, and away from him ; New York ; From composition to improvisation? ; The Theatre of Eternal Music and the expansión of Young's reputation ; The Well-Tuned Piano -- 2. Terry Riley: Early years ; Europe: the search for the mystical experience ; Return to San Francisco ; Mexico and New York ; The expansión of Riley's reputation and his changing aesthetic to 1976 -- Shri Camel -- 3. Steve Reich: Early years ; California ; Return to New York ; Early minimalist compositions ; The expansión of Reich's reputation and his changing aesthetic to 1976 -- Mature minimalist compositions -- Music for Eighteen Musicians -- 4. Philip Glass: Early American years ; Europe and the East ; Return to New York ; Early minimalist compositions ; The expansión of Glass's reputation and his changing aesthetic to 1976 -- Mature minimalist composition -- Einstein on the Beach

The American composers La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass are widely regarded as pioneers of the aesthetic and the techniques of minimalism in musical composition during the 1960s and early 1970s. This book offers the most detailed account so far of their early Works, putting extensive discussion of the music into a biographical perspective. The true musical minimalism of these years is placed in the wider context of their musical output as a whole, and considered within the cultural conditions of a period which saw not only the rise of minimalism in the fine arts but also crucial changes in the theory and practice of musical composition in the Western cultivated tradition." (cubierta posterior)