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Dan Farrant – Managing Editor. Dan Farrant is a music teacher and musician, originally from London, who studied Jazz Double Bass at The Royal Academy of Music from 2008 to 2012. Having been a musician for over 25 years and teaching for over 15, he plays the piano, guitar, bass guitar, and double bass.
I've been running HelloMusicTheory.com since 2017, helping people learn to read music and unlock their instruments. It now gets over 1,000,000 people visiting it every month. I studied my undergrad...
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- When Was The Minimalism Era?
- Style of Minimalism
- New Musical Forms
- Silence in The Minimalist Era
- Important Minimalism Era Composers
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Minimalism in music gained a firm foothold in music history during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. After the advent of the electric guitar raised the noise threshold and the ability of players to play more notes faster during the new contemporary period in the 1950s, the art world, in general, underwent a period of contrast and embraced re...
Michael Nyman may have first used the term “Minimalist” in The Spectatorin 1968. Nyman is an English pianist, librettist, musicologist, and composer of minimalist music upon whose work the Michael Nyman band was founded in 1976. Nyman claimed to have found “a recipe for the successful minimal music happening from the entertainment presented by Char...
The minimalist movement introduced new elements and forms of music, some of which remain in vogue today. The minimalist approach to music is marked by a non-narrative system that calls the listener to focus on the process or phases of the musical composition or score and promotes active listening rather than serving as a mere backdrop for other act...
In contrast to the musical periods preceding it, the minimalist era did not emphasize any scale patterns. Instead, minimalist music focused on improvisation, non-instrumental sounds, non-choreographed sounds, or repetitive loops that followed a pattern but not necessarily a scale. Minimalist music often leaves out any tonic or center key, favoring ...
Composers of minimalist music broke down barriers that had previously defined music for all of music history. Primarily seated in the United States and the United Kingdom, minimalist composers used new technologies to change how we perceive natural and man-made sounds. The following composers are considered the most influential of the time: 1. Stev...
Many instruments used in minimalist music have been used for centuries and are still used today. Standard minimalist instruments include organ, wind instruments, string quartets, and, for some composers, entire traditional orchestras. Modern-era instruments like saxophones, mallets, and various percussion instruments are often used in minimalist co...
Minimalism has played an important part in music history. Its influence is still heard today in electronic dance music, rap and hip-hop beats and loops, and experimental music of the 21st century. Listeners can hear minimalism’s influence in tracks from the Beach Boys and the Velvet Underground, and it has helped humans think of the sounds of natur...
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17 apr 2024 · Written by Dan Farrant. Last updated 17th April 2024. If you’ve ever heard a piece of music that sounds a bit Egyptian, then it’s likely that it was using a type of scale called the Phrygian mode. It’s quite an unusual scale that isn’t very common but pops up in Spanish music and lots of film music.
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№35 Dan Farrant, Hello Music TheoryToday we are switching gears, with an amazing elearning entrepreneurial story for you. Within 5 years, Hello Music Theory ...
Hi I'm Dan Farrant your tutor for this course. I studied music at the Royal Academy of Music and I've been teaching music theory for the last 12 years. I wanted a way to share my love of music and make it more accessible to people so started Hello Music Theory back in 2014.
Danny Farrant (born in Weston-super-Mare, England) is an English musician who is the current drummer in the British punk band Buzzcocks, having joined the group following Phil Barker's departure in 2006. [1] [2] Early years. He has described the Sex Pistols song "God Save The Queen" as being his biggest inspiration in music.
