Philip Glass의 영화음악 『The Hours』의 분석을 통한 미니멀리즘 음악 연구

A study on minimalism music through the analysis of a film music The Hours by Philip Glass.

Minimalism music is one of the music genres, the characteristic of which is the repetitive use of minimum notes of music. It has appealed to the public and has been popularized all over the world. Minimalism music tends to circulate its sound in the repeated continuity of notes of music, and does not assert any traditional and logical flow. Among the representative composers who applied minimalism music to movie soundtrack are Philip Glass and Michael Nyman. In this study we discussed Philip Glass and his movie soundtrack The Hours. This movie is about three women in three different times. Philip Glass minimalism musical factors has done their good roles in incorporating these 3 women and their times into his coherent music. Those musics played in this movie sound like one music, but there are various continuing minor changes in them. We examined and analyzed his soundtracks, Morning passages and The Hours in that movie. These musics show a minimal pattern with the continued repetition of simple harmony and figuration. Also, he has attempted new sounds through a Hemiola technique that is allowing various rhythm alteration in repetition. These minimal patterns emerge in all the soundtracks of the movie, and they keep a coherence of the whole movie, making the musics in it sound like one music.