Minimal Challenges: Process Music and the Uses of Formalist Analysis

Critiques of formalist modes of musical analysis resemble critiques of certain types of minimal music. One ironic, if not downright paradoxical aspect of this parallel is that the sharpest attacks on minimal music have come from writers sympathetic to formalism. A reconciliation of sorts has been re...

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Published in:Contemporary music review 2006-06, Vol.25 (3), p.283-294
Main Author: Quinn, Ian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Contemporary Music
Formalism
Methodology
Methods
Minimalism
Music Criticism
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Summary:Critiques of formalist modes of musical analysis resemble critiques of certain types of minimal music. One ironic, if not downright paradoxical aspect of this parallel is that the sharpest attacks on minimal music have come from writers sympathetic to formalism. A reconciliation of sorts has been reached by formalist admirers of minimalism, for whom the music is a staging ground for reflexive methodological critique.
ISSN:0749-4467
1477-2256
DOI:10.1080/07494460600726537