Minimalism and Postminimalism

Minimalism and Postminimalism

Code: TOPIC 5125
Historical and theoretical exploration of the movement known as minimalism of the 20th and 21st centuries. The most important figures of this movement in its beginnings, the mutual influence between them and their relationship with the plastic arts will be studied. The course includes composers reacting to minimalism in various ways in the mid-70s through to the influence of this movement in the 80s, 90s to the present.