A bit nit picky, but the midle vnoice is't always correct . For example in 1:30 the fifth note to the right should also be an A. There are a few other places aswell. But very good way to illustrate, thanks for the video!
Sound Nice, really beautiful. But can someone tell me why this composition is special? A Frigian or A Mayor Frigian, sometimes chords with some 2nd mayor intervals, but nothing new, isn't it?
It's contextual. Pärt grew up as an extremely rebellious composer in the Soviet Union, often writing very complex atonal works. At the fall of the Soviet Union and his subsequent exposure to Medieval music which was previously censored in the USSR, he suddenly turned to this meditative and holy "Tinntinnabuli" style, using literally one single chord in his accompaniments alongside a single scale in the melody (as is described in this video). As a composer myself, I find it stirring that he's able to make such a dynamic and interesting work with so little. Furthermore, while I am too young to have experienced this first hand, I am sure it must have been shocking to hear this kind of music while a good chunk of the European contemporary music scene was just getting more and more complex and hard-edged. I also find the general concept of "The Sacred Minimalism" to be very interesting. While most minimalist composers such as Steve Reich, Terry Riley, or Philip Glass arrived at their minimalist aesthetics through cultural appropriation (with an almost exception in the case of Reich), Pärt was influenced by just simply dialing back the clock on Western Classical music. It's refreshing to have a composer, while just about everyone else in his purview was amping up their complexity level, to be bold enough to try and shave away as much as possible in a piece while still keeping it interesting. It's composers like Pärt who laid the groundwork for the great contemporary music scene we have today, with so many composers writing in a plethora of interesting and varied styles.
@@oliverdubon5438 Thanks for your answer. Good information. But don't get me wrong, I really love this vid and what I listened from him. And love and support the simplicity of minimalism against the complexity of skillfull composer. But if Tintinabuli is an style has to have certain and specifics technical parameters or structures that I can not discover.
@@barakados maybe you need to read what tintinnabuli even is before commenting?? there is enough information out there. also: it's not called "Frigian or Mayor Frigian" it's called >>Phrygian or Phyrgian Dominant.
the green voice implies A minor (or some slight alteration); the blue and red voice is A Phrygian dominant scale (mode of D harmonic minor); this works probably because the scales overlap nicely and timely (like, you never get clash of C and C# at the same time) (also, C# gives the first chord major quality, and Bb provides a tritone for a second chord for additional tension/dissonance)
The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt (ed. Andrew Shenton) Although I haven't read this so I can't say how good it is, but it is a collection of essays on his music. You can get it on Amazon Kindle
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A bit nit picky, but the midle vnoice is't always correct . For example in 1:30 the fifth note to the right should also be an A. There are a few other places aswell. But very good way to illustrate, thanks for the video!
A very nice Illustration.
I can now figure out why I love this music so much
I’ve always wondered if it was possible to walk down a melody on this scale. 🧡
Me when I’m in space and something ominous lingers nearby…
i hate when that happens
Like this kind of breakdown a lot. Makes sense to me. Thanks!
Original piece was quite friends safe, but it's transformation into something quite somber was amazing
Hahaha, "friend's safe". This is a good one to lure them in.
So cool! Thanks for sharing
This is really good thanks
cool video, could you provide some context for the diagram though?
that reminds me of Kachaturian’s 3rd symphony
Thank you !
Sound Nice, really beautiful. But can someone tell me why this composition is special? A Frigian or A Mayor Frigian, sometimes chords with some 2nd mayor intervals, but nothing new, isn't it?
It's contextual. Pärt grew up as an extremely rebellious composer in the Soviet Union, often writing very complex atonal works. At the fall of the Soviet Union and his subsequent exposure to Medieval music which was previously censored in the USSR, he suddenly turned to this meditative and holy "Tinntinnabuli" style, using literally one single chord in his accompaniments alongside a single scale in the melody (as is described in this video). As a composer myself, I find it stirring that he's able to make such a dynamic and interesting work with so little. Furthermore, while I am too young to have experienced this first hand, I am sure it must have been shocking to hear this kind of music while a good chunk of the European contemporary music scene was just getting more and more complex and hard-edged.
I also find the general concept of "The Sacred Minimalism" to be very interesting. While most minimalist composers such as Steve Reich, Terry Riley, or Philip Glass arrived at their minimalist aesthetics through cultural appropriation (with an almost exception in the case of Reich), Pärt was influenced by just simply dialing back the clock on Western Classical music. It's refreshing to have a composer, while just about everyone else in his purview was amping up their complexity level, to be bold enough to try and shave away as much as possible in a piece while still keeping it interesting. It's composers like Pärt who laid the groundwork for the great contemporary music scene we have today, with so many composers writing in a plethora of interesting and varied styles.
@@oliverdubon5438 Thanks for your answer. Good information. But don't get me wrong, I really love this vid and what I listened from him. And love and support the simplicity of minimalism against the complexity of skillfull composer. But if Tintinabuli is an style has to have certain and specifics technical parameters or structures that I can not discover.
@@barakados maybe you need to read what tintinnabuli even is before commenting?? there is enough information out there. also: it's not called "Frigian or Mayor Frigian" it's called >>Phrygian or Phyrgian Dominant.
Fantastic
Interessante
Excuse me... Why can we add the C# and Bb in the upper line?🤔🤔🤔 Thank You!
the green voice implies A minor (or some slight alteration); the blue and red voice is A Phrygian dominant scale (mode of D harmonic minor); this works probably because the scales overlap nicely and timely (like, you never get clash of C and C# at the same time) (also, C# gives the first chord major quality, and Bb provides a tritone for a second chord for additional tension/dissonance)
Do you know any text that explains or of guidelines in the analysis of Pärt's work?
The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt (ed. Andrew Shenton)
Although I haven't read this so I can't say how good it is, but it is a collection of essays on his music. You can get it on Amazon Kindle
@@pinecone8722 Arvo Part’s Fratres and his Tintinnabuli Technique
By Rade Zivanovic. You can find it online
@@andrewharris7998 Thanks! I'll check that out
Thank you!