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Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my...

You can kill people with sound. And if you can kill, then maybe there is also the sound that is oppo...

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Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

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I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colo...

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Born: 1935-09-11

Died: N/A

Arvo Pärt (born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer. Pärt writes compositions that reflect his study of medieval musical forms. His work also reveals his deep Christian faith. He developed what he named tintinnabuli, or the tintinnabulation method of composition, derived from the Latin for "little bells", which can attribute why Pärt's music typically revolves around the notes of a single triad, or "three bells" as he states.More

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