Musicology Annotation << Back Polyphonic methods in the repetitive technique of American minimal music Anna E. Krom The article is devoted to the functioning of polyphonic methods of writing in repetitive technique that was formed in the early 1960s in the works of American minimalist composers. As a result of avantgarde experiments in the fi eld of tape-music, Terry Riley and Steve Reich came to the opening of repetitive principles of the organization of musical matter, the demonstration of which revealed their close relationship with the form of the canon. Relying on the most actual for that time original technical inventions ("time-lag accumulator", experiments with tape loops), musicians developed various types of canon with non-fi xed shift, realizing them in their electronic and acoustic compositions. Keywords: repetitive technique, infi nite canon with non-fi xed shift, gradual phase shift process, time-lag accumulator. Contacts: E-mail: yannakrom@yandex.ru Pp. 23-28.