SATB, String Orchestra

The collected articles of this book introduce the reader to Arvo Pärt: a composer who - within the last few decades - has become an eminent and unique personality in the music world. The selected texts address a variety of interests: - In the course of an extensive conversation that Enzo Restagno had with Arvo Pärt, the composer talks in his very personal way about his works, his life in Soviet Estonia, his emigration, his artistic odyssey and vision of the world. -Leopold Brauneiss offers a musicological insight into Arvo Pärt's composition technique - the Tintinnabuli style. -Saale Kareda talks about spiritual aspects in the approach to Pärt's music. - Two speeches given by Arvo Pärt on the occasion of two international award ceremonies and many photos from the private archive of the composer complete the picture of the artist.

TEXT

German Language

A too-brief but highly emotional work from Pärt now joins the UE Study Score Series. Dur.: 6'

String Orchestra, Bell

The New Study Score Series

FULL SCORE - STUDY

Sublime. Arvo Pärt redefines ""sublime"" with his Da pacem Domine, a deceptively simple prayer for mixed chorus and orchestra. Universal Edition now presents a study score for the orchestral

SATB, Orchestra

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Also published for string quartet and for string orchestra, Da pacem Domine is here presented in a version for eight cellos (or four). See also the study score for a version for 8-part chorus and

8 Celli

SCORE AND PART(S)

Thalhaimer notes that Fratres, when completed in 1977, was scored for three parts without instrumentation. This has led to a number of arrangements since, and now this new version for

Descant Recorder, Treble Recorder, Tenor Recorder, Percussion, Violoncello

Arranged by Peter Thalheimer

SCORE AND PART(S)

The 1977 Pärt classic is presented here in the string quartet setting from 1989, a brief (dur.: 10') but powerful and important work.

2 Violins, Viola, Cello

Difficulty: EASY

The New Study Score Series

2 Violins, Viola, Cello

Fratres (original setting for violin and piano) was commissioned by the Salzburg Festival and premiered on August 17th, 1980 at that very place. Composed in Part's very own Tintinnabuli- style, this piece allows many different settings because it is not bound to a specific tone color. "The highest virtue of music, for me, lies outside of its mere sound. The particular timbre of an instrument is part of the music, but it is not the most important element. If it were, I would be surrendering to the essence of the music. Music must exist of itself . . . two, three notes . . . the essence must be there, independent of the instruments." (Arvo Part).

Arvo Pärt's L'abbé Agathon is a setting of a story from the ""Sayings of the Desert Fathers,"" teachings taken from the ancient monks of third-century desert Egypt, and is scored for solo soprano and alto voices with SA choir and string orchestra.

Soprano Voice, Alto Voice, SA Choir, String Orchestra

Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano based on the second movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata in F, K.280.

As with many of Part's deceptively simple works, Pari intervallo has become available in a number of arrangements for various instruments and ensembles. The organ solo led to piano duet or piano duo, and was readily translated to recorder quartet, which begat saxophone quartet. Previously available only in the UE organ collection The New Organ Album, Volume 2 (UE017480), the solo organ version of Pari intervallo is now available separately for the first time. The haunting work features a constant third as it moves up and down the scale in mesmerizing fashion.

Pärt's quiet meditation Pari Intervallo is available in several very diverse settings (4 recorders, organ solo, or clarinet and trombone with string orchestra), and UE now makes available this 2008

Piano 4 Hands Or 2 Pianos

FULL SCORE - STUDY

Consider Pärt's seminal Spiegel im Spiegel in a new setting for organ; it's deceptively simple, quiet wholeness is perfect for a moment of meditation within a church service, or as a contrasting

Organ

Einrichtung von Giovanni Battista Mazza (2010)

Bassoon, Piano

Difficulty: EASY

Summa is one of those Pärt works that seems so simple on the surface, but which requires focus and depth to explore what lies beneath the printed page. Even so, it has drawn in many fans,

Guitar Quartet

SCORE AND PART(S)

Another signature work by Pärt is Summa, available in several arrangements, and finally now arranged for string quartet. Listeners describe the push and pull of the strings, a birth of Spring,

String Quartet

Pärt's Summa is equally at home as a string orchestra or solo instrument setting. As with so many of his later works, the result is deeply moving. UE adds two new versions to its catalog, with

2 Guitars

Arranged by Hermann Conen

SET OF PERFORMANCE SCORES

SET OF PARTS

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4 Trombones

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4 Trombones

SCORE AND PART(S)

Saxophone Quartet

SAXOPHONE QUARTET

38 years after writing his Third Symphony, Arvo Pärt returned with a Fourth, a total departure from his earlier struggles with 12-tone composition. Commissioned in part by Los Angeles Philharmonic

String Orchestra, Harp, Timpani, Percussion

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Includes an audio CD together with text and photos from the original album from 1984; manuscript facsimiles of Cantus and Tablua rasa; study scores of Fratres for violin and piano, Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, Tabula rasa and Fratres for 12 celli

SCORE AND AUDIO CD

Universal Edition presents a short, lilting waltz for piano from Arvo Pärt, which originally appeared on the soundtrack for the 1973 film Ukuaru.

Universal Edition presents a short, lilting waltz for piano from Arvo Pärt, which originally appeared on the soundtrack for the 1973 film Ukuaru. For advanced players.

Piano