Domain='thefreedictionary.com' word='Nyman, Michael' Printer Friendly 760,153,748 visitors served. TheFreeDictionary Google Word / Article Starts with Ends with Text subscription: Dictionary/ thesaurus Medical dictionary Legal dictionary Financial dictionary Acronyms Idioms Encyclopedia Wikipedia encyclopedia Hutchinson encyclopedia Nyman, Michael Also found in: Wikipedia 0.04 sec. write_ads(AdsNum, 0) English composer. His highly stylized music is characterized by processes of gradual modification by repetition of complex musical formulae (known as minimalism). His compositions include scores for the English film-maker Peter Greenaway and the New Zealand film-maker Jane Campion ( The Piano The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at King's College, London. In 1974 he published I'll Stake my Cremona to a Jew's Trump (1983), and Letters, Riddles and Writs The Draughtsman's Contract The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover (1989), and Prospero's Books (1991). He formed the Michael Nyman Band for the performance of an eclectic range of pieces, for example Piano Concerto hut(3) write_ads(AdsNum, 0) | |
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