↑ Mertens, W. (1983), American Minimal Music, Kahn & Averill, London, (p.11).
↑ Michael Nyman, writing in the preface of Mertens' book refers to the style as "so called minimal music"[mơ hồ] (Mertens p.8).
↑ "The term 'minimal music' is generally used to describe a style of music that developed in America in the late 1960s and 1970s; and that was initially connected with the composers La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass." Sitsky, L. (2002), Music of the twentieth-century avant-garde: a biocritical sourcebook,Greenwood Press, Westport, CT. (p.361)
