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Arvo P

by Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.8 x 2 cm

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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 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.
Arvo P and Beginnings
BeginningsArvo P

  • Author

    Peter C. Bouteneff

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Fordham University Press

  • Published

    December 2020

  • Weight

    395g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.8 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780823289769

  • ISBN-10

    0823289761

  • Eden Code

    5200297

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