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The Choral Compositions of Arvo Pärt As an Example of “God-Seeking” Through Music in Soviet Russia
Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 59(1-2), 85-101. doi: 10.2143/JECS.59.1.2023428 T©HE 2007 CHORAL by Journal COMPOSITIONS of Eastern Christian OF ARVO Studies. PÄRT All rights reserved. 85 THE CHORAL COMPOSITIONS OF ARVO PÄRT AS AN EXAMPLE OF “GOD-SEEKING” THROUGH MUSIC IN SOVIET RUSSIA TATIANA SOLOVIOVA* 1. EMERGING FROM THE UNDERGROUND OF ‘OFFICIAL ATHEISM’ OF THE SOVIET ERA Arvo Pärt was a representative of the underground music in the former Soviet Union. His music, like the works of many other musicians and art- ists, did not fit within the narrow bosom of Socialist Realism – the prevail- ing ideology of the time.1 He had to struggle in order to write the music he wanted. Nowadays there is no Soviet Empire anymore, and the composi- tions of Pärt represent “the face” of contemporary music. He is one of the few composers whose art music enjoys success similar to that of pop. He is widely known, and his works are being performed all over the world. Arvo Pärt was born in 1935 in Paide, near Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, one of the Western republics within the former USSR. Between the First and the Second World War this little country enjoyed a short period of in- dependence. Life for Pärt till 1980 was inseparably connected with his Motherland Estonia on one hand, and with Russia, which was the political and cultural dominant at that time, on the other hand. Pärt knew and loved national traditions, as well as he knew European and Russian culture: he called the composer Glazunov who taught his teacher Heino Eller ‘my musi- * Tatiana Soloviova studied at Moscow State University and obtained her PhD in His- tory. -
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ARVO PÄRT LIVE Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks The Hilliard Ensemble Münchner Rundfunkorchester ARVO PÄRT *1935 Collage über B-A-C-H für Streicher, Oboe, Cembalo und Klavier 01 Toccata · Preciso 2:42 02 Sarabande · Lento 3:11 03 Ricercare · Deciso 1:23 Robert King (Dirigent / conductor) Yeon-Hee Kwak (Oboe) Max Hanft (Cembalo / Klavier) Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen für gemischten Chor a cappella 04 O Weisheit 1:26 05 O Adonai 2:08 06 O Spross aus Isais Wurzel 0:56 07 O Schlüssel Davids 1:53 08 O Morgenstern 1:35 09 O König aller Völker 1:20 10 O Immanuel 2:30 Peter Dijkstra (Dirigent / conductor) 11 Cecilia, vergine romana 20:13 für Chor und Orchester Ulf Schirmer (Dirigent / conductor) Arvo PÄRT 12 Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten 7:42 für Streichorchester und Glocke Ulf Schirmer (Dirigent / conductor) 13 Litany 23:09 ARVO PÄRT Chor- und Orchesterwerke Prayers of St John Chrysostom for Each Hour of the Day and Night für Soli, Chor und Orchester Es war fast so etwas wie eine musikalische Sensation, als in den späten 1970er Jahren die ersten Kompositionen des Esten Arvo Pärt in den Westen The Hilliard Ensemble gelangten. Seine einfachen, doch neuartigen Klänge, die Art und Weise, wie David James Countertenor diese Zeit und Raum erobern (einerseits) und gleichzeitig (andererseits) die Tenor Rogers Covey-Crump Auflösung, Emulsion, ja die Einswerdung all dieser Dimensionen herbeizufüh- John Potter Tenor ren scheinen, wurden nicht nur als innovativ erkannt und anerkannt, in ihnen Gordon Jones Bass fanden sich auch viele Menschen wieder, die – verunsichert durch die in jenen Marcello Viotti (Dirigent / conductor) Jahren immer stärker kulminierenden politischen Machtkämpfe des Kalten Krieges – nach einer Friedensbotschaft suchten. -
Choral Vespers
GONVILLE & CAIUS COLLEGE CHAPEL Easter Term 2021 CHORAL VESPERS Vespers is the sixth of the seven prayer services of the Christian day. Its name comes from the Latin vespera, which means ‘evening.’ When Thomas Cranmer created the English Prayer Book in 1549 and 1552 he combined Vespers with the night service (compline) into the service we know as Evensong. Magnificat is the Gospel Canticle of Vespers, as Nunc Dimittis is the Gospel Canticle of Compline. The service ends with a traditional antiphon (a special seasonal text, from which comes our modern word ‘anthem’) in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 2nd May Fourth Sunday of Easter LUCERNARIUM (The Lighting of the Lamps) Thy word is a lantern unto my feet and a light unto my paths. Thou also shalt light my candle the Lord my God shall make my darkness to be light. The light and peace of Jesus Christ be with you and with thy spirit Light Prayer Blessed art thou, Sovereign Lord, God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to thee be glory and praise for ever. Thou hast called us out of darkness into thy marvellous light that our lives may reflect thy glory and our lips repeat thy song: Blessed be God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit HYMN LUCIS Creator optime O BLEST Creator of the light, lucem dierum proferens, Who mak'st the day with radiance bright, primordiis lucis novae, and o'er the forming world didst call mundi parans originem: the light from chaos first of all; Qui mane iunctum vesperi Whose wisdom joined in meet array diem vocari praecipis: the morn and eve, and named them Day: taetrum chaos illabitur, night comes with all its darkling fears; audi preces cum fletibus. -
Timbre and Tintinnabulation in the Music of Arvo Part
Timbre and Tintinnabulation in the Music of Arvo Part WONG Hoi Sze Susanna A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Philosophy in Music ©The Chinese University of Hong Kong September 2001 The Chinese University of Hong Kong holds the copyright of this thesis. Any person(s) intending to use a part or whole of the materials in the thesis in a proposed publication must seek copyright release from the Dean of the Graduate School. •( 13 APR m )1) ^^IBRARY SYSTEMX^ Abstract of thesis entitled: Timbre and Tintinnabulation in the Music of Arvo PM Submitted by Wong Hoi Sze Susanna for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Music at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in June 2001 Arvo Part (born 1935), one of the most outstanding Estonian composers, studied composition at the Tallinn Conservatory, graduating in 1963. He first gained recognition in Soviet Russia in 1959 with his prize-winning tonal cantata for children - Meie Aed (Our Garden). In the following year, he started experimenting with aspects of serialism and, later, with combining several styles in one piece. Although the Soviet authorities criticized his experimental music, he continued to compose serial works until 1968. After that he stopped composing for almost eight years. During this self-imposed compositional silence, he immersed himself in the intensive study of medieval and Renaissance music, for example, Gregorian chant, the music of Machaut, Ockeghem and Josquin. He eventually developed a distinctive compositional style, which he calls the "tintinnabuli style." Fur Alina (1976), a short piano solo, was his first tintinnabuli work. -
Arvo Pärt Triodion Polyphony · Stephen Layton
ARVO PÄRT TRIODION POLYPHONY · STEPHEN LAYTON TRIODION ARVO PÄRT POLYPHONYPOLYPHONY STEPHENSTEPHEN LAYTONLAYTON 30 OLYPHONY’s first Hyperion recording of Arvo Pärt’s choral music (CDA66960) focused on music written Pbetween 1988 and 1991, a particularly fertile period for the composer which coincided with a surge of international performances and recordings, and resulting acclaim. Works on that disc, and others such as the large-scale setting of Psalm 51, Miserere, suggested that Pärt was moving into more complex, exotic harmonic territory. With clusters, compound chords and use of the augmented second interval, he seemed to be stretching the crucial, characteristic boundary in his music between dissonance and consonance. Judging by the more recent music on this disc—all written between 1996 and 2002—that harmonic journey was, for Pärt, something from which he has now returned. The essential purity of the triad remains paramount, and chord progressions in works such as Triodion and Salve Regina seem more diatonically conventional. And although there is less evidence in these pieces of strict ARVO PÄRT © Tina Foster ‘tintinnabulation’—the rigidly maintained discourse during the recording sessions at Temple Church, London between stepwise and triadic part-writing—there is enough austerity of structure and harmony in other ways extended periods at his second home near Colchester in to make it unmistakably ‘Pärtian’. Essex—resulting in a noticeably greater fluency with Polyphony’s first Hyperion disc featured Pärt’s first English. But this, he insists, is not the reason for a greater setting in English (a section from Saint Matthew’s account number of English settings. -
An Analysis of Sergei Rachmaninov's All-Night Vigil “Now Let Thy Servant
An Analysis of Sergei Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil “Now Let Thy Servant Depart” Lance Morrow Lance Morrow is music director at Salem United Methodist Church and an adjunct faculty member of the Department of Music at Austin Peay State University, both in Clarksville, TN. He holds choral music and conducting degrees from the University of North Alabama and Austin Peay State University [email protected] Introduction the Saturday-evening service preceding major feast days n the years just prior to 1915, Sergei Rachmaninov and includes Vespers (or Great Compline, depending on toured the United States, Austria, and Poland. He the occasion), Matins, and the First Hour. Originally, the I returned to Russia just before the enforcement All-Night Vigil stretched throughout the night, hence its of traveling restrictions due to the Great War. In only title; however, most modern parishes simply use the Nunc two weeks in early 1915 (almost thirty years before his Dimittis, from the Vespers service, as one of the last read- death), he completed his All-Night Vigil, now considered ings before lying down to sleep. a masterpiece of choral literature. This was the last of a Also called the “Canticle of Simeon,” the Nunc Dimittis few sacred settings in a small body of choral works, and [Now Let Thy Servant Depart] originates in Luke 2:29–32 Rachmaninov dedicated it to the memory of Stepan Vasi- of the New Testament. This prayer to “depart in peace” lyevich Smolensky, the respected church music historian, correlates with a tranquil death—a serene decline—an idea who had introduced him to Orthodox sacred music. -
ARVO PÄRT Da Pacem Domine
ARVO PÄRT Da pacem Domine Latvian Radio Choir Sigvards Kļava 1 ARVO PÄRT 2 ARVO PÄRT (1935) Triodion (1998) 1 Introduction 0:27 2 Ode I 4:10 3 Ode II 5:26 4 Ode III 4:59 5 Coda 0:58 Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen (1988/91) 6 I O Weisheit 1:33 7 II O Adonai 2:33 8 III O Sproß aus Isais Wurzel 1:04 9 IV O Schlüssel Davids 2:25 10 V O Morgenstern 2:00 11 VI O König aller Völker 1:22 12 VII O Immanuel 3:13 13 Nunc dimittis (2001) 7:45 14 Dopo la vittoria (1996/98) 9:20 15 Virgencita (2012) 8:11 16 The Woman with the Alabaster Box (1997) 5:57 17 Tribute to Caesar (1997) 5:31 18 Da pacem Domine (2004/06) 4:24 Latvian Radio Choir Sigvards Kļava, conductor 3 Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells… Edgar Allan Poe: The Bells, (ll. 9-12) Throughout history, composers have presented radical stylistic shifts in their work: compare the post-Wagnerian language of early Schoenberg with his later twelve- tone music; or, conversely, Richard Strauss’ return to romanticism after such ground- breaking works as Salome and Elektra. The same is true of the contemporary Estonian composer Arvo Pärt (b. 1935), though his earlier compositional style has been almost entirely overshadowed by the tremendous popularity of his second period. Pärt began his career writing works that adopted neo-classicism, serialism and polystylism, but between 1968 and 1976 suffered a kind of writer’s block. -
An Analytical Conductor's Guide to the SATB a Capella Works of Arvo Part
The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital Community Dissertations Spring 5-2008 An Analytical Conductor's Guide to the SATB A Capella Works of Arvo Part Kimberly Anne Cargile University of Southern Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations Part of the Composition Commons, Musicology Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, and the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Cargile, Kimberly Anne, "An Analytical Conductor's Guide to the SATB A Capella Works of Arvo Part" (2008). Dissertations. 1106. https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/1106 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The University of Southern Mississippi AN ANALYTICAL CONDUCTOR'S GUIDE TO THE SATB A CAPPELLA WORKS OF ARVO PART by Kimberly Anne Cargile A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Studies Office of The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Musical Arts May 2008 COPYRIGHT BY KIMBERLY ANNE CARGILE 2008 The University of Southern Mississippi AN ANALYTICAL CONDUCTOR'S GUIDE TO THE SATB A CAPPELLA WORKS OF ARVO PART by Kimberly Anne Cargile Abstract of a Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Studies Office of The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Musical Arts May 2008 DISSERTATION ABSTRACT AN ANALYTICAL CONDUCTOR'S GUIDE TO THE SATB A CAPPELLA WORKS OF ARVO PART by Kimberly Anne Cargile May 2008 Arvo Part (b. -
Arvo Pärt's Te Deum
Arvo Pärt’s Te Deum : A Compositional Watershed STUART GREENBAUM Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (by thesis and musical composition) July 1999 Faculty of Music The University of Melbourne Abstract A critical analysis of Arvo Pärt’s Te Deum (1984-85) is conducted in light of his tintinnabuli style. The origin of this style is traced back to 1976, placing Te Deum in the middle of the tintinnabuli period. Te Deum is a major work lasting nearly half an hour, written for three choirs, strings, prepared piano and tape. The introduction to the thesis provides an overview of the composer and styles with which he is aligned. Definitions of minimalism, spiritual minimalism and tonality are contextualised, with reference to Pärt’s compositional technique, aesthetic and development. The work is analysed syntactically and statistically in terms of its harmonic mode, its textural state and orchestration, its motivic construction, and the setting of the Te Deum text. The syntactic function of these parameters are viewed in dialectical terms. Analysis is conducted from the phenomenological standpoint of the music ‘as heard’, in conjunction with the score. Notions of elapsed time and perceived time, together with acoustical space, are considered in the course of the analysis. The primary sound recording is compared to other sound recordings, together with earlier versions of the score and revisions that have accordingly taken place. The composer, Arvo Pärt, was interviewed concerning the work, and the analysis of that work. Pärt’s responses are considered in conjunction with other interviews to determine why he pursued or tackled some questions more than others. -
Oranit Kongwattananon 1
Oranit Kongwattananon 1 Introduction Arvo Pärt, an Estonian composer, was born in 1935. He studied at Tallinn Conservatory under his composition teacher, Heino Eller, in 1958-1963. While studying, he worked as a sound engineer at the Estonian Radio, and continued working there until 1968, when he became a freelance composer. At the beginning of 1980, Arvo Pärt and his family emigrated to Austria where he received Austrian citizenship. Afterwards, he received a scholarship from Der Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service) in 1981-1982, so he and his family moved to West Berlin.1 Most of the works at the beginning of his career as a composer were for piano in neo- classical style. He won the first prize of the All-Union Young Composers’ Competition in Moscow in 1962, and turned his interest to serial music at this time. He studied from books and scores, which were difficult to obtain in the Soviet Union. The first work to which he applied serial techniques, Nekrolog, was composed in 1960. Although he was panned by the critics for this work, he nevertheless continued creating his works with serial techniques throughout the 1960s. One well-known piece called Credo, composed in 1968, was the last work combining tonal and atonal styles.2 For several years afterwards, Pärt turned his attention to studying tonal monody and two-part counterpoint exercises.3 Between 1968-1976 Pärt initiated a “self-imposed silence”; during which he published only one work, Symphony no. 3, whilst studing early music: At the beginning of this period, Pärt heard Gregorian chant for the first time in his life and was completely overwhelmed by what he heard: he immediately sought out other examples, and went on to make an intensive study of early music, including not only Gregorian chant, but also the music of the Notre Dame school, Gillaume de Machaut, 1 Wright, Stephen, “Arvo Pärt (1935- ),” in Music of the twentieth-century avant-garde: a biocritical sourcebook, ed. -
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Pärt’s musical revelation came in the early 1970’s during the Our Unitarian Universalist Faith Children’s Programming RLINGTON Kruschev-era of Soviet censorship, and in the midst of several “ Unitarian Universalism draws from many Children’s Religious Education begins every A other personal struggles: the annunciation of his faith into the sources: “Jewish and Christian teachings Sunday in the sanctuary. Children are sung TREET HURCH which call us to respond to God’s love by out near the beginning of the service and RLINGTONS C Eastern Orthodox Church, his marriage to his wife Nora, and their loving our neighbors as ourselves.” gather downstairs in the Perkins Room for A Unitarian Universalist relocation to Berlin. Soviet censors had placed a ban on a large This is the fourth source of Unitarian CRE. There is an adjacent toddler room for STREET CHURCH portion of his early works, and he fell silent for several years. Pärt Universalism from which our living tradition parents with children ages 1-5. Fussy babies and their parents are invited to the Nursery came to a cathartic release after experiencing and studying the draws. To read all six sources, as well as the Unitarian Universalist seven principles of our free faith, please see just off the Hunnewell Chapel, where a Franco-Flemish music of the Renaissance and Gregorian plainchant, the Our Faith brochure in the pew rack. rocker, changing table and supplies are emerging with a completely new compositional voice that has won available. Children rejoin their families in the hearts of many dedicated followers across the world. -
Analysis of Summa by Arvo Pärt
The copyright of this thesis vests in the author. No quotation from it or information derived from it is to be published without full acknowledgementTown of the source. The thesis is to be used for private study or non- commercial research purposes only. Cape Published by the University ofof Cape Town (UCT) in terms of the non-exclusive license granted to UCT by the author. University Analysis of Summa by Arvo Pärt David Patrick PTRDAV003 A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Master of Music (Composition and Dissertation) Town Faculty of the Humanities University of Cape Town Cape 2011of COMPULSORY DECLARATIONUniversity This work has not been previously submitted in whole, or in part, for the award of any degree. It is my own work. Each significant contribution to, and quotation in this dissertation from the work, or works, of other people has been attributed, and has been cited and referenced. Signature:_______________________________________________ Date: __________________________ 1 ABSTRACT Analysis of Summa by Arvo Pärt David Patrick This study presents a musical analysis using a process of pitch mapping. Pitch rows are presented graphically to demonstrate the visual design of the music. Description of the process is preceded by a discussion of some of the historical, and philosophical factors that are relevant to the development of Pärt’s tintinnabuli music. The musical and political history of Estonia and some of its other composers are presented as an important resource for understanding Pärt’s music. The use of proportions and formulas in the music is presented as being connected to a long line of similar practice in the fields of music, mathematics, physicsTown and astronomy that has been used in the pursuit of an understanding of the Universe.