Antedating of "Minimalism"

[Fred Shapiro]

minimalism (OED3 1929)

1927 _Musical Quarterly_ XIII. 545 (JSTOR)  Is not this ideo-psychological
"minimalism" ... is not thsi the most important, most characteristic trait
of Taneev's own individuality?

Fred Shapiro


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