Philip glass composer minimalist

Music : Minimalism

Philip Glass: A Study in Musical Symmetry

Philip Glass (b. Baltimore, 1937), is commonly known as one of the founders of the �minimalist� school of music. Click here for an in depth biography of the composer.

Philip glass composer minimalist

Glass is currently one of the most publicly acclaimed contemporary composers, and he remains incredibly prolific to this day.

Glass� most significant influences have come from the study of non-Western, and most notably Indian, music under the tutelage of Ravi Shankar, the classical Indian sitar player.

Much of his music has experimented with the introduction of non-Western rhythmic patterns into Westernized melodies. Glass� style has changed since his earliest days as a composer, and most of his current work strays from the strict �minimalist� bounds of his earlier work.

Due to the importance of structure in Glass� music, most of his compositions are quite symmetrical; although symmetry is probably less important than periodicity in his works, it m