Terry Riley

Terry Riley (born 1935), is an American minimalist composer.

A pupil of the late Pandit Pran Nath, as were La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, he has composed in just intonation and much of his music is based in improvisation. He has collaborated with Pauline Oliveros and Lauren Rush, and was a sometime performer in La Monte Young's Theater of Eternal Music. His music is usually based on improvising through a series of modal figures of different lengths, such as In C and the Keyboard Studies. Though for a time he stopped notating his music at all his relationship with the Kronos Quartet convinced him to return to pre-composed notated music.

Notable works

• A Rainbow in Curved Air
• The Harp of New Albion
• In C
• Salome Dances for Peace

See also: John Adams, Philip Glass, Steve Reich.

External links

• Terry Riley's home page

Listening

• Epitonic.com: Terry Riley featuring tracks from The Book of Abbeyozzud and The Light of Foresight (with Rova)