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

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

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

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

Statistically the most performed and listened to contemporary composer in the world, Arvo Pärt is a musical and cultural phenomenon. This book is an essential