This collection of essays and interviews is an ideal guide to the work and thought of one of the world's greatest and most original living composers. In Enzo Re

Scholarly writing on the music of Arvo Pärt is situated primarily in the fields of musicology, cultural and media studies, and, more recently, in terms of theo

The first substantial volume in English to explore the impact of Arvo Pärt on contemporary music and culture.

Spaces beyond : an introduction -- A beginning : the Riga Polytechnic disco, 1974-76 -- Tintinnabuli and the sacred -- Ritual moments : the RPI festivals, 1976-

Points of entry: Spirituality and religion - Part's spiritual reach - The role of text; Out of silence: Music lost to silence - Music found in silence - Excusus