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Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.
-Terry Riley
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Essentially My Contribution Was To Introduce Repetition

Terry Riley
Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.
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