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Topic: sooo like.... is minimalism  (Read 1925 times)

Offline swagmaster420x

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sooo like.... is minimalism
on: February 16, 2014, 07:11:37 AM
basically the opposite of liszt

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Re: sooo like.... is minimalism
Reply #1 on: February 16, 2014, 07:44:44 AM
He wrote many things that were on the edge of minimalism, so no.

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Re: sooo like.... is minimalism
Reply #2 on: February 16, 2014, 08:22:45 AM
Liszt was minimalist and forward looking in his late period.

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Re: sooo like.... is minimalism
Reply #3 on: February 16, 2014, 08:58:33 AM
oh forreall for example which piece

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Re: sooo like.... is minimalism
Reply #4 on: February 16, 2014, 09:03:20 AM
probably

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Re: sooo like.... is minimalism
Reply #5 on: February 16, 2014, 07:59:40 PM
He could do that too:

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Re: sooo like.... is minimalism
Reply #6 on: February 16, 2014, 08:36:15 PM
Few notes, repeated over and over, slowly changing. 

For it being minimal, note-wise, there are still a lot of notes, but it's repetition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_music
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