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'Cellular' describes some of it.
As regards minimalism, there are many definitions, see the Wiki article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_music
By some of these definitions, Nyman would see himself as minimalist. Cellular music can in fact have very LONG cells, as in the Baroque arc of gradually returning to first base. A lot of his trademark is the orchestration that gives a sort of cynical modernity to Baroque and subverts it.
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The later Bernard Herrmann and Philip Glass relied heavily on cell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(music)
Nyman was considered, many say, to have INVENTED the phrase 'musical minimalism' in his terminology about music forms.
Wiki says this about his style's origins:
Nyman says he discovered his aesthetic playing the aria, "Madamina, il catalogo รจ questo" from Mozart's Don Giovanni on his piano in the style of Jerry Lee Lewis, which "dictated the dynamic, articulation and texture of everything I've subsequently done."... It subsequently became the base for his 1977 piece In Re Don Giovanni.
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