Kyle Gann reflects on music after minimalism i.e. totalism, using as an example Mikel Rouse's Quick Thrust:
For one thing, it was one of the first fully notated pieces for a pop instrumentation, written as it was, like most of his music of the ‘80s, for his rock-instrumentation quartet Broken Consort, consisting of soprano sax, electric keyboard, electric bass, and drum set. Secondly - it’s a 12-tone work.
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