Originally Posted by Reth

It seems odd to me that someone would want to study minimalism. Since minimalism seems to be the default of what my scores tend to be and easier to compose. Going beyond minimalism for me any ways, takes alot more effort.

Originally Posted by HymnSpace

I think you will find that writing good minimalism is rather harder than you think. I would say that writing music that is atonal (or at least very cacophonous such as the aforementioned Boulez) is much easier....or at least I feel it is