The Michael Nyman Band
The Michael Nyman Band
Top Songs
| 1 | And Do They Do: Song I | ||
| 2 | Bravura in the Face of Grief | ||
| 3 | Queen of the Night | ||
| 4 | The Disposition of the Linen | ||
| 5 | A Watery Death |
Albums
Dec 2015 • 19 songs
Apr 2006 • 7 songs
Apr 2006 • 14 songs
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Biography
Celebrated for his modular, repetitive style, minimalist composer Michael Nyman was among experimental music's most high-profile proponents, best known in connection with his film scores for director Peter Greenaway. Born in London on March 23, 1944, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music and King's College, London, under communist composer Alan Bush and Thurston Dart, a musicologist specializing in the English Baroque. Under Dart's tutelage, Nyman was introduced to 16th- and 17th-century English rounds and canons, their repetitive, contrapuntal lines highly influencing his ...