A guide to Arvo Pärt's compositional technique.

0:00 Introduction
1:52 Structural overview
2:39 Writing an Mvoice
6:15 Text setting
7:49 Adding Tvoices
14:28 Additional Mvoices
19:19 Building complexity
23:54 New Perspectives

ERRATA: The second purple box at the end of the section "Additional Mvoices" should have gone to the measure which is two measures later, since that is the one with the same note (B) in the Mvoice (the Tvoices are still the same there in either case).

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Andrew Shenton (ed.) "The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt" https://amzn.to/44yM6e3
Paul Hillier, "Arvo Pärt" https://amzn.to/3QwYrKb

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