Minimal music in film

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre

Minimal music in film · Minimal music arose in New York in the 1960s: music made from short patterns that are repeated again and again and slowly altered. In 1982 Philip Glass brought that principle to film with Koyaanisqatsi, a film without dialogue or story, in which image and music do the work together. In the same year the Briton Michael Nyman wrote energetic music on bass lines by Henry Purcell for Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract. Nyman later scored The Piano (1993), Glass The Hours (2002), among others. Clint Mansell used the technique with the Kronos Quartet in Requiem for a Dream (2000). Repetition gives movement without telling the image what it should feel.

Listening

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  Koyaanisqatsi · Philip Glass, 1982
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  Chasing Sheep Is Best Left to Shepherds · Michael Nyman, 1982
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  Lux Aeterna · Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet, 2000

In School of Rock

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• Film Music Map^NL Map

See also

• Max Richter
• Joe Hisaishi
• Ludovico Einaudi
• Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet
• American indie film
• Ambient, drone and new modernism