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Lisaclaire · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

The vielle is:

a. a double-reed instrument with a loud penetrating tone.
b. a keyboard instrument that generates sound when a tangent strikes thestring.
c. the ancestor of the modern tambourine.
d. a large five-string fiddle.

Question 2

Briefly define minimalism and cite an example that we discussed in class.

What will be an ideal response?

allisonblackmore · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

Minimalism is a musical texture in which short, simple patterns are repeated for long periods of time, either without variation or with subtle changes that gradually alter the melodic, rhythmic, or timbral content.
It first emerged in the 1960s and was associated with two trends.
an increased interest in Asian and African music, in which repetition plays a very significant role
a reaction of some composers to mid-century modernism itself, especially the serialism

Steve Reich (b. 1936)
influential composer of minimalist music in the mid-1960s

Example: Piano Phase (1967) (excerpt), explores the phase shifting of two pianos
lining up in unison two recorded loops and letting them slowly shift out of phase with each other

Other composers of minimalist music include:
Philip Glass (b. 1937)
John Adams (b. 1947)