A guide to Arvo Pärt's compositional technique.

0:00 Introduction
1:52 Structural overview
2:39 Writing an M-voice
6:15 Text setting
7:49 Adding T-voices
14:28 Additional M-voices
19:19 Building complexity
23:54 New Perspectives

ERRATA: The second purple box at the end of the section "Additional M-voices" should have gone to the measure which is two measures later, since that is the one with the same note (B) in the M-voice (the T-voices 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
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