Composers like Steve Reich and Philip Glass had no desire to separate from their hippy friends, or to lose the one benefit that makes the life of a composer worthwhile, namely an audience. There emerged the new idiom of minimalism, in which the harmonic complexities of the modernists and those of the great jazz musicians like Monk, Tatum and Peterson were both rejected in favour of simple tonal triads, often repeated ad nauseam on mesmeric instruments like the marimba.
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