The compositions often use Minimalist techniques - repetitions of simple material, for example - along with instrumentation derived from rock, including intricate percussion sections.

The British composer Michael Nyman's "Think Slow, Act Fast" (1981) applies Minimalist techniques to modified rock instrumentation.

Mr. Branca uses some Minimalist techniques: simple gestures, basic harmonies, repetition, unvarying dynamics.

Javier Alvarez, based in England, has fashioned an intricate, harmonically intensified Minimalist technique; the shifting patterns of his "Quemar las Naves," to be played on Thursday, are fired by salsa rhythms.

Louis Andriessen, a Dutch composer who started out as a Serialist, has been bringing his own spin to Minimalist techniques since the early 70's.

Throughout the piece, in fact, Mr. Wheeler draws on Minimalist techniques, using repeated fragments of angular melodies, mostly as an underpinning.

As in Mr. Moran's earlier works, the actors are given repeating sequences of lines, a Minimalist technique applied to dialogue.

Book I draws heavily on the Minimalist technique of allowing short repeated figures to expand slowly and take new shapes.

It is also eclectic music that touches on influences from Arabic wind music, Renaissance styles and allusions to Mozart and Beethoven, to 12-tone rows, Minimalist techniques and waves of broad-boned Romanticism.

But the style that brought him to prominence a decade ago involves Minimalist compositional techniques and rock instrumentation - electric guitars, bass and drums.