The Music of Michael Nyman: Texts

Nymans rise to international prominence during the last three decades has made him one of the worlds most successful living composers. His music has nevertheless been criticized for its parasitic borrowing of other composers ideas and for its relentless self-borrowing. In this first book-length study in English, Pwyll ap Siأ n places Nymans writings within the general context of Anglo-American experimentalism, minimalism and post-minimalism, and provides a series of useful contexts from which controversial aspects of Nymans musical language can be more clearly understood and appreciated.