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Arvo Pärt (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈɑrvo ˈpært]; born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of classical and sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-invented compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music is in part inspired by Gregorian chant. Pärt has been the most performed living composer in the world for 5 consecutive years.
Pärt was born in Paide, Järva County, Estonia, and was raised by his mother and stepfather in Rakvere in northern Estonia. He began to experiment with the top and bottom notes as the family's piano's middle register was damaged. His first serious study came in 1954 at the Tallinn Music Middle School, but less than a year later he temporarily abandoned it to fulfill military service, playing oboe and percussion in the army band. While at the Tallinn Conservatory, he studied composition with Heino Eller. As a student, he produced music for film and the stage. During the 1950s, he also completed his first vocal composition, the cantata Meie aed ('Our Garden') for children's choir and orchestra. He graduated in 1963. From 1957 to 1967, he worked as a sound producer for Estonian radio.
The piano (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpjaːno]; an abbreviation of pianoforte [pjanoˈfɔrte]) is a musical instrument played using a keyboard. It is widely employed in classical, jazz, traditional and popular music for solo and ensemble performances, accompaniment, and for composing and rehearsal. Although the piano is not portable and often expensive, its versatility and ubiquity have made it one of the world's most familiar musical instruments.
An acoustic piano usually has a protective wooden case surrounding the soundboard and metal strings, and a row of 88 black and white keys (52 white, 36 black). The strings are sounded when the keys are pressed, and silenced when the keys are released. The note can be sustained, even when the keys are released, by the use of pedals.
Pressing a key on the piano's keyboard causes a padded (often with felt) hammer to strike strings. The hammer rebounds, and the strings continue to vibrate at their resonant frequency. These vibrations are transmitted through a bridge to a soundboard that amplifies by more efficiently coupling the acoustic energy to the air. When the key is released, a damper stops the strings' vibration, ending the sound. Although an acoustic piano has strings, it is usually classified as a percussion instrument because the strings are struck rather than plucked (as with a harpsichord or spinet); in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of instrument classification, pianos are considered chordophones. With technological advances, electric, electronic, and digital pianos have also been developed.
Spiegel im Spiegel is a piece of music written by Arvo Pärt in 1978, just prior to his departure from Estonia. The piece is in the tintinnabular style of composition, wherein a melodic voice, operating over diatonic scales, and tintinnabular voice, operating within a triad on the tonic, accompany each other. It is about ten minutes long.
The piece was originally written for a single piano and violin – though the violin has often been replaced with either a cello or a viola. Versions also exist for double bass, clarinet, horn, flugelhorn, flute, bassoon, trombone, and percussion. The piece is an example of minimal music.
The piece is in F major in 6/4 time, with the piano playing rising crotchet triads and the second instrument playing slow F major scales, alternately rising and falling, of increasing length, which all end on the note A (the mediant of F). The piano's left hand also plays notes, syncopated with the violin (or other instrument).
"Spiegel im Spiegel" in German literally can mean both "mirror in the mirror" as well as "mirrors in the mirror", referring to an infinity mirror, which produces an infinity of images reflected by parallel plane mirrors: the tonic triads are endlessly repeated with small variations as if reflected back and forth. The structure of melody is made by couple of phrases characterized by the alternation between ascending and descending movement with the fulcrum on the note A. This, with also the overturning of the final intervals between adjacent phrases (for example, ascending sixth in the question - descending sixth in the answer), contribute to give the impression of a figure reflecting on a mirror and walking back and towards it.
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Tracklist below. Download on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/album/arvo-part-fur-anna-maria-complete/id895720326 For physical sales: http://brilliantclassics.com/articles/a/arvo-paert-fuer-anna-maria,-complete-piano-music/ Listen via Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4LKO7lmLeK2US2Ppide9Iy Jeroen Van Veen has released a series of acclaimed recordings on Brilliant Classics of music by the masters of Minimalism, that 1960s-derived aesthetic in which it is not so much the case that more can be said with less as that less seems to be necessary in an increasingly noisy and chaotic world. The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has never counted himself as among the minimalist number, nor indeed was he schooled in their new traditions, but emerged in the 1960s as an angry and dissonant voice wh...
Für Alina is a work for piano composed by the Estonian composer . It can be considered as an essential work of his tintinnabuli style. Für Alina was first performed in Tallinn in 1976, along with six other works, after a long preparatory period in Pärt’s life as a composer. This concert was the first to introduce his new signature style of composition, referred to as the tintinnabuli style. Für Alina was dedicated to a family friend's eighteen-year-old daughter who had just gone to study in London. Its introspection calls to mind a vivid image of youth, off to explore the world. The piece appears very simple on the page and could be played by any person willing to spend a little time with a piano. It has both the left and right hand written in G clef and only the echoing bass octave is w...
Arvo Part: 'Fur Anna Maria' - Complete Piano Music / Jeroen van Veen, piano Record Label: Brilliant Classics Expedition Audio recommendation: http://www.expeditionaudio.com/?p=5662 To purchase, please visit:http://www.hbdirect.com/album_detail.php?pid=2621886 Album Overview: Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is a unique figure in the musical world. The utter simplicity of his works, inspired by his deep religious feelings, has a strange, hypnotic power over the listener. Confronted with the stark, naked and essential musical lines, one feels close to the inner truth of oneself and the other, a human bond which only music can bring. No wonder the music of Pärt, the cult figure, reaches beyond the boundaries of traditional classical audiences. Many recordings of Pärt achieve a bestselling st...
Video etude for the Healing of Arinushka (Arvo Part), for Piano. Budapest, Hungary, 2009.
Arvo Part - Fratres For Cello And Piano. This is the version used in the brilliant film 'There Will Be Blood' *Note, I made this video, but I have nothing to do with the production of the song, or the film. All rights of the song go to Arvo Part, and all rights of 'There Will Be Blood' go to the film-makers.*
Jeroen Van Veen has released a series of acclaimed recordings on Brilliant Classics of music by the masters of Minimalism, that 1960s-derived aesthetic in which it is not so much the case that more can be said with less as that less seems to be necessary in an increasingly noisy and chaotic world. The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has never counted himself as among the minimalist number, nor indeed was he schooled in their new traditions, but emerged in the 1960s as an angry and dissonant voice whose musically expressed anger against Communist oppression of his native country could barely be contained within the tumultuous textures of works such as the Third Symphony, but a combination of personal circumstances and aesthetic decisions led him to pare back his style to the world of eerie calm...
Spiegel im Spiegel, composed in 1978, was the last work Arvo Pärt completed before leaving his native Estonia. Following the inaugural "tintinnabular" works by only two years, the work stands as one of the most carefully distilled examples of Pärt's new compositional aesthetic, and its extreme tranquility contrasts sharply with the tension and frustration that characterized his music from a decade before. To fully appreciate the beauty of Spiegel im Spiegel, we must go back a few years. The late 1960s found Pärt in an artistic quandary. Having tired of the brash, neoclassic style of his first published works (see, for example, the Partita), and growing equally frustrated with the predominant serialist style of the day, he composed several works that seemed to reflect no style of his own, ...
Arvo Part - Fratres Lana Trotovsek, violin twitter: https://twitter.com/LanaTrotovsek Yoko Misumi, piano You can support the artist by downloading "Lana Trotovsek - Arvo Part: Fratres" from iTunes here https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/arvo-part-fratres-ep/id936893328 Hedone Records Sound and video editing: Boris Bizjak Camera: Boris Bizjak and Tony Dedomenici This film was made using the Final cut pro x, Logic pro 9, Canon 60D, Canon 550D (t2i), Neumann KM184 mached pair and 2x Rode NT2A Recorded in June 2013 in London and Bohinj, Slovenia Links: http://www.lanatrotovsek.info/ http://www.yokomisumi.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/CINEMAN8 http://www.borisbizjak.com/ Fratres is a composition by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, existing in versions for a wide variety of instrumenta...
======================================= https://www.facebook.com/IainHemstockMusic http://www.twitter.com/IainHemstock ======================================= Spiegel Im Spiegel is a minimalist piece from the Estonian composer Arvo Part composed in 1978. From Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel_im_Spiegel ): The piece is in the tintinnabular style of composition, wherein a melodic voice, operating over diatonic scales, and tintinnabular voice, operating within a triad on the tonic, accompany each other. Spiegel Im Spiegel in German literally can mean both "mirror in the mirror" as well as "mirrors in the mirror", referring to the infinity of images produced by parallel plane mirrors: the tonic triads are endlessly repeated with small variations as if reflected back and fort...
“Spiegel im Spiegel” is a piece of music written by Arvo Pärt in 1978.
Arvo Pärt was born in Paide, Estland in 1935. Sacred music plays a big part in his life.
Für Alina - Arvo Pärt Benny Wollin, Piano. Performed at Heid Music, Appleton, WI, on September 4th, 2015. http://www.b7musicstudio.com
Emma Meinrenken, violin, performs Fratres by Arvo Pärt. Recorded at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, January 26, 2016
Arvo Pärt - Spiegel im Spiegel Lydia Consilvio, oboe Fantee Jones, piano Master of Music Degree Recital Yale School of Music Morse Recital Hall at Sprague 11/28/2016
Music on Main presents Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im spiegel featuring Caroline Shaw, violin & Rachel Iwaasa, piano Performed live during Music on Main's Music for the Winter Solstice Friday, December 12, 2014 at Heritage Hall, Vancouver BC
Love classical music? Learn to play the best PIANO pieces the easiest way: http://tinyurl.com/classic-flowkey Arvo Pärt Symphony No 4 “Los Angeles” For more: http://www.melhoresmusicasclassicas.blogspot.com
Paro Intervallo by Arvo Pärt - Lorna Pollock, piano. Arvo Pärt is an Estonian composer of classical and sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-invented compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music is in part inspired by Gregorian chant. ---wikipedia for educational or review purposes only. (c) 2014 Lorna Pollock
Max Richter Memoryhouse Genre: Electronic, Classical 00:00 Europe, After The Rain 6:13 Piano – Michael Haslam; Soloist, Cello – Judith Herbert 06:12 Maria, The Poet* (1913) 4:47 [Text] – Marina Tsvetaeva 10:58 Laika's Journey 1:30 12:28 The Twins (Prague) 1:58 Piano – Kate Heath, Kirsteen Davidson Kelly 14:25 Sarajevo 4:03 Soprano Vocals [Solo] – Sarah Leonard 18:27 Andras 2:42 Piano – Kirsteen Davidson Kelly 21:08 Untitled (Figures) 3:27 24:35 Sketchbook 1:54 Viola – Levine Andrade 26:28 November 6:21 Soloist, Violin – Alexander Balanescu 32:48 Jan's Notebook 2:41 Harpsichord – Michael Haslam; Read By – Sarah Sutcliffe 35:29 Arbenita (11 Years) 7:04 42:32 Garden (1973) / Interior 3:24 [Text] – John Cage; Read By – John Cage 45:55 Landscape With Figure (1922) 5:14 Soloist,...
Tracklist below. Download on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/album/arvo-part-fur-anna-maria-complete/id895720326 For physical sales: http://brilliantclassics.com/articles/a/arvo-paert-fuer-anna-maria,-complete-piano-music/ Listen via Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4LKO7lmLeK2US2Ppide9Iy Jeroen Van Veen has released a series of acclaimed recordings on Brilliant Classics of music by the masters of Minimalism, that 1960s-derived aesthetic in which it is not so much the case that more can be said with less as that less seems to be necessary in an increasingly noisy and chaotic world. The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has never counted himself as among the minimalist number, nor indeed was he schooled in their new traditions, but emerged in the 1960s as an angry and dissonant voice wh...
Andrew Nowicki performing in Recital Hall at the Jacobs School of Music on April 24th 2016. This is my senior recital for a Bachelors in Music Education. I studied with Dr. Brenda Brenner. My pianists were Jocelyn Lee and Gulrukh Shakirova. Bartok, Romanian Folk Dances: Jocelyn Lee, Piano 00:24 Arvo Pärt, Fratres: Jocelyn Lee, Piano 07:34 Franck, Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano: Gulrukh Shakirova, Piano 19:08 Thanks to everyone who has helped me over the years both teachers and family!
Marina Boiko & Artokrats: Inter Ambo Maria Music by Marina Boiko and Arvo Pärt Recorded Live @ Clockface, Odessa MMXIV Artokrats: Marina Boiko - piano Polina Chaika - violin Alexander Shamraev - violin Yakov Ivanidenko - viola Konstantin Tomnitski - cello Nikolay Shakhov - contrabass Margarita Grinivetskaya - conductor Dmitriy Baraulin - visuals & editing Vadim Dusman - camera
Instructions: Just watch and relax. Earphone Suggestion: wear them on the outside of your ear, in any knd of setting. Enjoy! :) I do not own copyright to the music: All You Need Is Love: Jim Sturgess/The Beatles Believer: American Authors Breezy and Finn's Song When I'm Gone: Anna Kendrick I See Fire: Ed Sheeran Another Love: Tom Odell The Mother We Share: CHVRCHES Do I Wanna Know?: Arctic Monkeys UltraViolence: Lana Del Rae Come A Little Closer: Cage The Elephant Brave: Sara Bareilles Chocolate: The 1975 Royals Cover: Sarah Stone Portals Are Fun Telerex Boss Fight: Terraria Music DJ Ease My Mind: Niki and The Dove Puttin on the Ritz: Ella' Fitzgerald (Arvo Pärt - Spiegel Im Spiegel) Gravity: Lura Johnson, piano / Peter Minkler, viola Everybody Talks: Neon Trees India...