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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsI. 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
