The Materiality of Sound and the Theology of the Incarnation in the Music of Arvo Pärt

Moody, Ivan2018-05-112018-05-112017-05-02PURE: 3582712PURE UUID: 0ff0ecd6-61d7-417c-8b83-a4dd07902c27ORCID: /0000-0003-4911-305X/work/55090925https://www.svots.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/sounding_the_sacred_program_may_2017.pdfUID/EAT/00693/2013In this paper I examine Arvo Pärt's music through the lens of Orthodox Christian theology. Specifically, and independently of confessional texts (or the lack thereof), I consider a number of his works as they relate to the theology of the Incarnation, bearing in mind the composer's attitude to sound and its relation to silence.176221engArvo Pärt's musicOrthodox Christian theologycomposer's attitudeSound and silenceThe Materiality of Sound and the Theology of the Incarnation in the Music of Arvo Pärtconference objecthttps://www.svots.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/sounding_the_sacred_program_may_2017.pdf