Nyman"s rise to international prominence during the last three decades has made him one of the world"s most successful living composers. His music has nevertheless been criticized for its parasitic borrowing of other composers" ideas and for its relentless self-borrowing. In this first book-length study in English, Pwyll ap Sion places Nyman"s writings within the general context of Anglo-American experimentalism, minimalism and post-minimalism, and provides a series of useful contexts from which controversial aspects of Nyman"s musical language can be more clearly understood and appreciated. Drawing upon terms informed by intertextual theory in general, appropriation and borrowing are first introduced within the context of twentieth-century art music and theory. Intertextual concepts are explained and its terms defined before Nyman"s musical language is considered in relation to a series of intertextual classifications and types. These types then form the basis of a more in-depth...