Arvo Pärt's Tabula rasa / Kevin C. Karnes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karnes, Kevin, 1972- author.

Series:

Oxford keynotes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pärt, Arvo. Tabula rasa.

Pärt, Arvo.

Tabula rasa (Pärt, Arvo).

Physical Description:

xii, 135 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

One of today's most widely acclaimed composers, Arvo Pärt transformed the soundscape of the Cold War West with Tabula Rasa in 1977. In the first book dedicated to this pathbreaking composition, author Kevin C. Karnes traces the story of Tabula from Part's discovery of his signature tintinnabuli sound amidst his experiments with the music of the Western and Soviet avant-gardes, through a quarter-century that saw momentous transitions in European culture, politics, history, and memory. This book examines Tabula Rosa in relation to modernist conceptions of musical structure, the ascetic practice of Orthodox Christianity, postwar experiences of electronic music, and the polystylistic approaches to composition that became emblematic of the Soviet 1970s. Revealing the intersections of critical commentary with visions of the "end of history" that attended the collapse of European communism, Karnes suggests that it was in this confluence of listening, discovery, and geopolitical reordering that enduring lines of conversation about Pärt and his music took shape Book jacket.

Contents:

The blank slate

Unofficial music : a history for Pärt

Tintinnabuli

Tabula rasa : listening, reading

Export and emigration.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190468989

019046898X

9780190468972

0190468971

OCLC:

973199667