In Reply to: Wikipedia has a nice page about worst music. posted by vacuous on March 9, 2023 at 19:25:30:
Ravel's whole idea was to repeat a theme, without variation, and "develop" it only by expanding the harmony as more and more instruments pile in on each repetition. He was apparently quite surprised by its ensuing popularity.
But it is quite a bit more accessible than later "minimalist" works of Glass, Reich, etc., simply because that repeated theme is so catchy.
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- Bolero = proto-minimalism - Brian H P 14:39:28 03/17/23 (0)