Arvo Pärt : : Sounding the Sacred / / ed. by Peter C. Bouteneff, Robert Saler, Jeffers Engelhardt.

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)...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 2 b/w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Arvo Pärt and the Art of Embodiment
  • 2. The Sound—and Hearing—of Arvo Pärt
  • II. HISTORY AND CONTEXT
  • 3. Sounding Structure, Structured Sound
  • 4. Colorful Dreams: Exploring Pärt’s Soviet Film Music
  • 5. Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabuli and the 1970s Soviet Underground
  • III. PERFORMANCE
  • 6. The Pärt Sound
  • 7. The Rest Is Silence
  • IV. MATERIALITY AND PHENOMENOLOGY
  • 8. Vibrating, and Silent: Listening to the Material Acoustics of Tintinnabulation
  • 9. Medieval Pärt
  • 10. The Piano and the Performing Body in the Music of Arvo Pärt: Phenomenological Perspectives
  • V. THEOLOGY
  • 11. Presence, Absence, and the Ambiguities of Ambiance: Theological Discourse and the Move to Sound in Pärt Studies
  • 12. The Materiality of Sound and the Theology of the Incarnation in the Music of Arvo Pärt
  • 13. Christian Liturgical Chant and the Musical Reorientation of Arvo Pärt
  • 14. In the Beginning There Was Sound: Hearing, Tintinnabuli, and Musical Meaning in Sufi
  • List of Contributors
  • Index of Terms
  • Index of Persons
  • Works by Other Composers
  • Works by Arvo Pärt