Mf Week 13

Question 0

Minimalist musical style

Answer 0

Repetition, patterns, 
Slow formal procedures, process change. Leads to meditative or trans motoric effect. 
Cellular. 
Non-developmental. 
Cycle

Question 1

Minimalism avant grade music, led to commercial success cross over.

Answer 1

Phillip glass.
Always interested in music therpate of various genres.
Kyinisgazhi (1988)

Did la belle et la bête sung through overdub.

Visual essay, in image and music.
Dir. Geoffrey Reggio

Ecological title, world out of balance.

Equal collab, film cut to score. Symbiotic, no dialogue,

World market appeal.

Question 2

Overture

Answer 2

Passacaglia un characteristic of glass.

Abstraction and ecological message.

Question 3

Micheal Nyoman,

Dir. Peter greenway. Painter, narrative films, painterly.

Answer 3

Prosperous books, greenway and Nyman (1991)
Recalling of tempest.

Baroque music quoting or neo-baroque.
Often Michael Nyman does this. Change instrumentation to weird instruments like sax.

Sensory overload. ,
Magician. Own primmitve Islam.d
Spirits. Invisible to everyone else.

Question 4

The piano
1993
Nyman

Answer 4

Breaks style appropriate to story,
More mainstream narrative film.
Different kind of minimalism

Question 5

Danny elfman

Answer 5

Rock band background,
Instantly recognizable style
Tim burton movies.

Movie brats links, soaked up star film composers.

Very eccentric goofy broad comic efcts.
Slight connection to minimalism in motor ic effect.

Pee wee
Beetle juice and nightmare before Christmas!

Non traditional style of music.
Board Herman kind of non functional harmonies.