In 1969, Nyman provided the libretto of Harrison Birtwistle's opera "Down by the Greenwood Side" and directed the short film "Love Love Love" (based on, and identical in length to, the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love") before settling into music criticism, where he is generally acknowledged to have been the first to apply the term "minimalism" to music (in a 1968 article in "The Spectator" magazine about the English composer Cornelius Cardew). He wrote introductions for George Frideric Handel's Concerti grossi, Op. 6 and interviewed George Brecht in 1976.. His 1976 album "Decay Music" was produced by Brian Eno.