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Arvo Pärt is one of the most influential and widely performed contemporary composers. Around 1976 he developed an innovative new compositional technique called 'tintinnabuli' (Latin for 'sounding bells'), which has had an extraordinary degree of success. It is frequently performed around the world, has been used in award-winning films, and pieces such as Für Alina and Spiegel im Siegel have become standard repertoire. This collection of essays, written by a distinguished international group of scholars and performers, is the essential guide to Arvo Pärt and his music. The book begins with a general introduction to Pärt's life and works, covering important biographical details and outlining his most significant compositions. Two chapters analyze the tintinnabuli style and are complemented by essays which discuss Pärt's creative process. The book also examines the spiritual aspect of Pärt's music and contextualizes him in the cultural milieu of the twenty-first century and in the marketplace.

Pärt, Arvo --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Scholarly writing on the music of Arvo Pärt is situated primarily in the fields of musicology, cultural and media studies, and, more recently, in terms of theology/spirituality. Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred focuses on the representational dimensions of Pärt's music (including the trope of silence), writing and listening past the fact that its storied effects and affects are carried first and foremost as vibrations through air, impressing themselves on the human body. In response, this ambitiously interdisciplinary volume asks: What of sound and materiality as embodiments of the sacred, as historically specific artifacts, and as elements of creation deeply linked to the human sensorium in Pärt studies? In taking up these questions, the book 'de-Platonizes' Pärt studies by demystifying the notion of a single 'Pärt sound.' It offers innovative, critical analyses of the historical contexts of Pärt's experimentation, medievalism, and diverse creative work; it re-sounds the acoustic, theological, and representational grounds of silence in Pärt's music; it listens with critical openness to the intersections of theology, sacred texts, and spirituality in Pärt's music; and it positions sensing, performing bodies at the center of musical experience. Building on the conventional score-, biography-, and media-based approaches, this volume reframes Pärt studies around the materiality of sound, its sacredness, and its embodied resonances within secular spaces.

Composers --- Sound --- Music --- Silence in music --- Religious aspects --- Religious aspects --- Pärt, Arvo --- Pärt, Arvo --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Waarheid is actueel. Post-truth en fake-news knagen aan ons. Wie liegt en wie niet? En hoe groot is mijn eigen beeld van de waarheid?Profeten zijn waarheid op het spoor. Ze zien iets en ze zeggen het. Het is vaak ongemakkelijk, het is meestal scherp, maar het is altijd ‘goed bedoeld’. Zij spreken omdat ze willen bewaken wat goed is, omdat ze willen tegenspreken wat mensen en samenlevingen geen goed doet.In deel 2 van ‘Moderne profeten’ maken we opnieuw acht portretten van intrigerende mensen. We laten zien waarom ze zo gedreven waren en wat ze ontdekten. Het zal steeds om waarheid draaien, maar telkens anders, en met verschillende accenten. Steeds zal ook blijken hoe hun christelijke traditie ons kan helpen ‘in waarheid te leven’.De profeten in dit boek: Henri Nouwen, Arvo Pärt, Majoor Bosshardt, Paul Kingsnorth, Václav Havel, een anonieme jonge vrouw, Søren Kierkegaard, Tim Keller en Tish Warren.

Keller, Timothy --- Havel, Václav --- Kierkegaard, Søren --- Pärt, Arvo --- Nouwen, Henri

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"In Sounds Beyond, Kevin C. Karnes illuminates the unofficial and interconnected music and art scenes in the USSR during the second half of the 1970s through the work of Arvo Pärt, one of the most successful and widely known contemporary classical composers with a large international following. Karnes shows how Pärt's work of the 1970s took shape in dialogue with a community of alternative musicians and as part of a vital yet forgotten culture of collective experimentation Karnes calls the 1970s Soviet Underground. Using a combination of archival research and oral history, Karnes carefully situates modes of experimentation in the late socialist contexts out of which they emerged, and he also shows the degree to which experimental scenes in the East and West were in dialogue and shared several common goals. Karnes also unveils the deeply communal nature of experimental projects in music and the visual arts, from John Cage to Morton Feldman, and in dislodging the mythology of the solitary genius cultivated in the official biographies of Pärt and many others; as he writes, his work was impossible without community"--

Underground music --- Music --- Music --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- Religious aspects --- Pärt, Arvo --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Scholarly writing on the music of Arvo Pärt is situated primarily in the fields of musicology, cultural and media studies, and, more recently, in terms of theology/spirituality. Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred focuses on the representational dimensions of Pärt’s music (including the trope of silence), writing and listening past the fact that its storied effects and affects are carried first and foremost as vibrations through air, impressing themselves on the human body. In response, this ambitiously interdisciplinary volume asks: What of sound and materiality as embodiments of the sacred, as historically specific artifacts, and as elements of creation deeply linked to the human sensorium in Pärt studies? In taking up these questions, the book “de-Platonizes” Pärt studies by demystifying the notion of a single “Pärt sound.” It offers innovative, critical analyses of the historical contexts of Pärt’s experimentation, medievalism, and diverse creative work; it re-sounds the acoustic, theological, and representational grounds of silence in Pärt’s music; it listens with critical openness to the intersections of theology, sacred texts, and spirituality in Pärt’s music; and it positions sensing, performing bodies at the center of musical experience. Building on the conventional score-, biography-, and media-based approaches, this volume reframes Pärt studies around the materiality of sound, its sacredness, and its embodied resonances within secular spaces.

Sound --- Music --- Religious aspects. --- Pärt, Arvo --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Arvo Pärt. --- Estonia. --- Orthodox Christianity. --- Soviet music. --- embodiment. --- materiality. --- music studies. --- religious studies. --- sound studies. --- theology.