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- Description
- 1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrations, portraits, charts, music.
- Summary
- "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." --Amazon.com.
- Uniform Title
- Arvo Pärt (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Arvo Pärt and the art of embodiment / Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt, and Robert Saler -- The sound--and hearing--of Arvo Pärt / Peter C. Bouteneff -- Sounding structure, structured sound / Toomas Siitan -- Colorful dreams : exploring Pärt's Soviet film music / Christopher J. May -- Arvo Pärt's tintinnabuli and the 1970s Soviet underground / Kevin C. Karnes -- The Pärt sound / Paul Hillier, in conversation with Peter Bouteneff -- The rest is silence / Andrew Shenton -- Vibrating, and silent : listening to the material acoustics of tintinnabulation / Jeffers Engelhardt -- Medieval Pärt / Andrew Albin -- The piano and the performing body in the music of Arvo Pärt : phenomenological perspectives / Maria Cizmic and Adriana Helbig -- Presence, absence, and the ambiguities of ambiance : theological discourse and the move to sound in Pärt studies / Robert Saler -- The materiality of sound and the theology of the incarnation in the music of Arvo Pärt / Ivan Moody -- Christian liturgical chant and the musical reorientation of Arvo Pärt / Alexander Lingas -- In the beginning there was sound : hearing, tintinnabuli, and musical meaning in Sufism / Sevin Huriye Yaraman.
- LCCN
- 2019565771
- OCLC
- ssj0002453248
- Title
Arvo Pärt [electronic resource] : sounding the sacred / Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt, and Robert Saler, editors.
- Imprint
New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.
- Edition
First edition.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Bouteneff, Peter.
Engelhardt, Jeffers.
Saler, Robert C.