Book Review
Feb. 28th, 2016 11:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariThe Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt
Edited by Andrew Shenton
This set of essays about Arvo Part and his music was quite enlightening. Part is one of my favorite contemporary composers, and this book provided a lot of great information and insights on the man and his music. This volume covers the music's technical aspects with great essays analyzing several of Part's works. These essays do a great job of explaining Part's techniques and providing analyses that are easily intelligible and illuminating. The book also covers the spiritual and historical aspects of his music with essays on the religious content and the ways Part and his music have been marketed and presented. However, this book does concentrate primarily on Parts tintinnabuli music and his post-Soviet career, so there is not very much information on Part's modernist works. Nonetheless, The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt provides the reader with a deeper understanding of the man and his work.
Edited by Andrew Shenton
This set of essays about Arvo Part and his music was quite enlightening. Part is one of my favorite contemporary composers, and this book provided a lot of great information and insights on the man and his music. This volume covers the music's technical aspects with great essays analyzing several of Part's works. These essays do a great job of explaining Part's techniques and providing analyses that are easily intelligible and illuminating. The book also covers the spiritual and historical aspects of his music with essays on the religious content and the ways Part and his music have been marketed and presented. However, this book does concentrate primarily on Parts tintinnabuli music and his post-Soviet career, so there is not very much information on Part's modernist works. Nonetheless, The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt provides the reader with a deeper understanding of the man and his work.
