Arvo Pärt (eBook)

lt;b>Peter C. Bouteneff (Edited By)
Peter C. Bouteneff is Professor of Systematic Theology at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, where he also directs the Institute of Sacred Arts and the Arvo Pärt Project. He is the author of Arvo Pärt: Out of Silence (SVS Press, 2015).

Jeffers Engelhardt (Edited By)
Jeffers Engelhardt is Associate Professor of Music at Amherst College. His research deals broadly with music, religion, European identity, and media. His books include Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia (Oxford, 2015) and the co-edited volume Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual (Oxford, 2016).

Robert Saler (Edited By)
Robert Saler is Research Professor of Religion and Culture and Associate Dean at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, where he also serves as Executive Director of the Center for Pastoral Excellence. He is the author of Between Magisterium and Marketplace (Fortress, 2014), Theologia Crucis (Cascade, 2016), and All These Things into Position: What Theology Can Learn from Radiohead (Cascade, 2019).

I. Introduction
1. Arvo Pärt and the Art of Embodiment | 3
Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt, and Robert Saler

2. The Sound—and Hearing—of Arvo Pärt | 8
Peter C. Bouteneff

II. History and Context
3. Sounding Structure, Structured Sound | 25
Toomas Siitan

4. Colorful Dreams: Exploring Pärt’s Soviet Film Music | 36
Christopher J. May

5. Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabuli and the 1970s Soviet Underground | 68
Kevin C. Karnes

III. Performance

6. The Pärt Sound | 89
Paul Hillier, in conversation with Peter Bouteneff

7. The Rest Is Silence | 107
Andrew Shenton

IV. Materiality and Phenomenology
8. Vibrating, and Silent: Listening to the Material Acoustics of Tintinnabulation | 129
Jeffers Engelhardt

9. Medieval Pärt | 154
Andrew Albin

10. The Piano and the Performing Body in the Music of Arvo Pärt: Phenomenological Perspectives | 177
Maria Cizmic and Adriana Helbig

V. Theology
11. Presence, Absence, and the Ambiguities of Ambiance:
Theological Discourse and the Move to Sound in Pärt Studies | 197
Robert Saler

12. The Materiality of Sound and the Theology of the Incarnation in the Music of Arvo Pärt | 208
Ivan Moody

13. Christian Liturgical Chant and the Musical Reorientation of Arvo Pärt | 220
Alexander Lingas

14. In the Beginning There Was Sound: Hearing, Tintinnabuli, and Musical Meaning in Sufism | 232
Sevin Huriye Yaraman

List of Contributors | 243

Index of Terms | 247

Index of Persons | 252

Works by Other Composers | 256

Works by Arvo Pärt | 257