Introduction
GlassPages-Philip Glass on the Web are an unofficial collection of information about Philip Glass, an american composer born in 1937 whose music has been classified as minimalist music, even if he dislikes this term. His music is based on the extended repetition of brief, elegant melodic fragments that weave in and out of an aural tapestry. The music of Philip Glass is the music of our times, in our times.
On GlassPages-Philip Glass on the Web you can expect to find related information about Philip Glass and his ensemble (The Philip Glass Ensemble), his music, his records and also some fragments of his music, lyrics, pictures... All this information is accessible through the main index.
The team
GlassPages are a project started by Jordi Petit i Silvestre circa 1995, when no information about Philip Glass existed in the Internet. Jordi is not working very actively in GlassPages anymore.
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GlassPages are currently written and maintained by José Jiménez Mesa. José is the man who know more about Philip Glass than Philip Glass himself.
[Some articles were written by Alex Christaki and reflect his own thoughts and opinions. They represent a very interesting critical view on some of Philip Glass works.
[Mathias Sträßer, is writing reviews on several Glass's albums. This musicologist also maintains Die deutsche Philip Glass-Site in German. Mathias created the www.glasspages.org internet domain.
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Please read our copyright information and credits pages and do not forget to let your words of wisdom in our guestbook!
The servers
Most pages in the World Wide Web are in permanent construction. This is not the case of GlassPages, which are yet constructed. However GlassPages are from times to times updated in order to enhance their informative objectives.
GlassPages used to have two servers, a main one located in Barcelona and a mirror one located in Paderborn. Currently, these servers are not used because the site can be found under www.glasspages.org.
Navigating
GlassPages give importance to the contents. This is why GlassPages have been designed in order to be hyghly readable: a black text on a white background is still the best and easiest way to read (isn't it?). However, due to the multimedia possibilities of the WWW, GlassPages have a nice look, which is pretty, coherent and simple to understand.GlassPages features nice graphics and small icons in order to help your reading and navigation. We tried, however, not to include too many big pictures in the pages, in order to allow a faster downloading. In most cases, pictures can be seen in full size clicking on them.
All the information in GlassPages is accessible through the main index. From it you will discover pages with information that can also have other menus. From any page you can go back to this index via the clickable "GlassPages" header. You can also go back one level clicking the back sign (
) button on the footers. External links (ie. links that point to pages out of our site) are marked with the remote sign (
). Since we cannot guarantee the correctness of these links, we request your feedback in order to maintain them. In general, you can send us mail by pressing the mail sign (
New items are highlighted using the new sign (
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Our pages are not supposed to be read with any particular browser: even if a graphical browser is recomended, GlassPages can be read with a text based browser. The times where documents created with one program could not be read by others should be fast forgiven. This is why our site is not "XXX enhanced".
GlassPages - Philip Glass on the Web
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