Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa

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Kevin C. Karnes (Winship Professor of Music History, Winship Professor of Music History, Emory University)

Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa

Kevin C. Karnes (Winship Professor of Music History, Winship Professor of Music History, Emory University)

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English

Oxford University Press Inc
14 December 2017

Theory of music & musicology; 20th century & contemporary classical music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Orchestras; European history

Series: Oxford Keynotes

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.

By: Kevin C. Karnes (Winship Professor of Music History Winship Professor of Music History Emory University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 140mm, Width: 208mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 181g
ISBN: 9780190468989
ISBN 10: 019046898X
Series: Oxford Keynotes
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 14 December 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Kevin C. Karnes is Professor of Music at Emory University. He is the author of A Kingdom Not of This World: Wagner, the Arts, and Utopian Visions in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Reviews for Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa

"""Finally, the book that Arvo Pärt and his landmark composition deserve. Karnes is an ideal guide: meticulous yet engaging. Avoiding the usual romantic flim-flammery, he puts Tabula Rasa in the context of the heady 1980s when it first broke onto the international stage thanks to Pärt's many eager advocates. New insights and details appear on every page, helping us hear the composition anew."" -Peter Schmelz, author of Such Freedom if Only Musical: Unofficial Soviet Music during the Thaw"