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Arvo Part's Tabula Rasa
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One of today's most widely acclaimed composers, Arvo Part transformed the soundscape of the Cold War West with Tabula Rasa in 1977. In the first book dedicated to this pathbreaking composition, author Kevin C Karnes traces the story of Tabula Rasa from Part's discovery of his signature tintinnabulisound amidst his experiments with the music of of the Western and Soviet avant-gardes, through a quarter-century that saw momentous transitions in European culture, politics, history, and memory.
This book examines Tabula Rasa in relation to modernist conceptions of musical structure, the ascetic practicce of Orthodox Christianity, postwar experiences of electronic music, and the polystylistic approaches to composition that became emblematic of the Soviet 1970s. Revealing the intersections of critical commentary with visions of the "end of history" that attended the collapse of European communism, Karnes suggests that it was in this confluence of listening, discovery, and geopolitical reordering that enduring lines of conversation about Part and his music took shape.
One of today's most widely acclaimed composers, Arvo Part transformed the soundscape of the Cold War West with Tabula Rasa in 1977. In the first book dedicated to this pathbreaking composition, author Kevin C Karnes traces the story of Tabula Rasa from Part's discovery of his signature tintinnabulisound amidst his experiments with the music of of the Western and Soviet avant-gardes, through a quarter-century that saw momentous transitions in European culture, politics, history, and memory.
This book examines Tabula Rasa in relation to modernist conceptions of musical structure, the ascetic practicce of Orthodox Christianity, postwar experiences of electronic music, and the polystylistic approaches to composition that became emblematic of the Soviet 1970s. Revealing the intersections of critical commentary with visions of the "end of history" that attended the collapse of European communism, Karnes suggests that it was in this confluence of listening, discovery, and geopolitical reordering that enduring lines of conversation about Part and his music took shape.
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