Arvo Pärt : sounding the sacred /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Bouteneff, Peter (Editor), Engelhardt, Jeffers (Editor), Saler, Robert C. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Pärt, Arvo > Criticism and interpretation.
Pärt, Arvo
Sound > Religious aspects.
Music > Religious aspects.
Musique > Aspect religieux.
MUSIC > Individual Composer & Musician.
Music > Religious aspects
Sound > Religious aspects
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction. Arvo Pärt and the art of embodiment
  • The sound-and hearing-of Arvo Pärt
  • II. History and context. Sounding structure, structured sound
  • Colorful dreams : exploring Pärt's Soviet film music
  • Arvo Pärt's tintinnabuli and the 1970s Soviet underground
  • III. Performance. The Pärt sound
  • The rest is silence
  • IV. Materiality and phenomenology. Vibrating, and silent : listening to the material acoustics of tintinnabulation
  • Medieval Pärt
  • The piano and the performing body in the music of Arvo Pärt : phenomenological perspectives
  • V. Theology. Presence, absence, and the ambiguities of ambiance : theological discourse and the move to sound in Pärt studies
  • The materiality of sound and the theology of the incarnation in the music of Arvo Pärt
  • Christian liturgical chant and the musical reorientation of Arvo Pärt
  • In the beginning there was sound : hearing, tintinnabuli, and musical meaning in Sufism.

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