A school or mode of contemporary music marked by extreme simplification of rhythms and patterns, prolonged chordal or melodic repetitions, and often the achievement of a throbbing, trancelike effect.

• 极简派音乐当代音乐的一个流派或形态，以其极端简化的节奏和形式、延长的和弦和旋律重复为特征，其经常能产生一种震颤的使人出神的效果