ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with minimalism and with other trends that came to the fore even later. These later trends are known by an array of labels such as postminimalism, the new romanticism, the new tonality, totalism, eclecticism, and polystylistics. Minimal music, also called process music, phase music, pulse music, systemic music, and repetitive music, may have had its roots in some of the works that Cage, Wolff, and Feldman composed in the 1950s, but the first important example of what has become known as minimalism was Terry Riley's In C. In Europe, minimalism has had an influence on the music of large number of composers and experimental rock groups. Unfortunately, the student of this music will find that much of it is available only in recorded form, although scores are gradually becoming more available. While the postserial avant-garde tradition has not died out, it has certainly met with serious opposition in the forms of indeterminacy, minimalism, and neoromanticism.
