Musical works may be classified according to the type of composition and the musical language of the means of performance. Within the genre groups, various one-movement or cyclical genres are distinguished, according to the setting of the performance. For example, theater music includes opera, ball...
This 1964 composition has been definitively analyzed in Robert Carl’s fine volume, “Terry Riley’s in C” so interested readers should seek out this book for definitive analytical detail. My main point here is that the musics elicits the making of choices much more so than the traditional w...