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    Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa by C. Karnes, Kevin;

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 9 November 2017

    • ISBN 9780190468989
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages152 pages
    • Size 140x208x12 mm
    • Weight 181 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 10 halftone, 14 line
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    Short description:

    The first book dedicated to the breakthrough work by one of the most acclaimed composers today, Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa tells the story of its composition and premiere against the backdrop of late Soviet culture and the end of the Cold War.

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    Long description:

    One of today's most widely acclaimed composers, Arvo Pärt broke into the soundscape of the Cold War West with Tabula Rasa in 1977, a work that introduced his signature tintinnabuli style to listeners throughout the world. In the first book dedicated to this pathbreaking composition, author Kevin C. Karnes tells the story of Tabula Rasa as one of Pärt and of Europe itself, traced over the course of a quarter-century that saw momentous transitions in European culture and politics, history and memory. Beginning at the site of the work's creation in the Estonian SSR, and drawing extensively upon a range of previously unexamined archival materials, Karnes recounts Pärt's discovery of tintinnabuli amidst his experiments with the music of the Western and Soviet avant-gardes. He examines Tabula Rasa in relation to modernist conceptions of musical structure, the ascetic practice of Orthodox Christianity, postwar experiences of electronic music, and the polystylistic approaches to composition that have become emblematic of the Soviet 1970s. Tracing the export of Tabula Rasa to the West and Pärt's emigration in 1980, the book reveals intersections of critical commentary with visions of the "end of history" that attended the collapse of European communism to suggest that it was in this confluence of listening, discovery, and geopolitical reordering that enduring lines of conversation about Pärt and his music took shape.

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgments
    About the Companion Website
    Note on Archives and Sources
    1. The Blank Slate
    2. Unofficial Music: A History for Pärt
    3. Tintinnabuli
    4. Tabula Rasa: Listening, Reading
    5. Export and Emigration
    Sources for Further Reading and Listening
    Index

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