Arvo Pärt : sounding the sacred / Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt, and Robert Saler, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bouteneff, Peter C., editor.

Engelhardt, Jeffers, editor.

Saler, Robert, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pärt, Arvo--Criticism and interpretation.

Pärt, Arvo.

Sound--Religious aspects.

Sound.

Music--Religious aspects.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.) : 2

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

1227951035