Songs for a Sunday: Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt is an Estonian composer of contemporary classical music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented.
I tried to find a simple definition of tintinnabuli without to many musical terms like how Elena Tokun—
Who?
I don’t know. Some musicologist who’s sole purpose it to over complicate things by saying stuff like:
“in Pärt’s tintinnabuli music are built on fundamentally different numerical bases – diatonic or polymodal systems. Therefore, they embody a new understanding of simplicity and postulate a new style paradigm of audible simplicity and structural complexity.“
What the…?
The best I can explain is that one melodic line moves in steps (up and/or down) over a single chord creating a meditative or ethereal mood.
I don’t like to tell people how to listen to music but this first piece is best if you just sit back an close your eyes for 10 minutes.
Spiegel im Spiegel (1978) is German for ‘mirror in the mirror’ is a good example of this technique.
Now that that is done, I know you have some house cleaning to do, so get out the duster/polishing cloth (no vacuuming, please, doing dishes is acceptable but run the water first) and see if you can finish in 27 minutes.
-Leon
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
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