- Operas, symphonies, compositions
- Koyaanisqatsi (life out of balance)
- Powaqqatsi (life in transformation)
- Naqoyqatsi (life as war)
- "Opening" - Glassworks **** beautiful piece...lots of movement/narrative through sound
The new musical style that Glass was evolving was eventually dubbed “minimalism.” Glass himself never liked the term and preferred to speak of himself as a composer of “music with repetitive structures.” Much of his early work was based on the extended reiteration of brief, elegant melodic fragments that wove in and out of an aural tapestry. Or, to put it another way, it immersed a listener in a sort of sonic weather that twists, turns, surrounds, develops.