About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Piano Phase, In C, Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten, Stimmung, Kanon Pokajanen, Drumming, Different Trains, Dream House 78' 17," The Libertine, Music for 18 Musicians, Century Rolls, Four Organs, Harmonielehre, Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, Come Out, China Gates, Grand Pianola Music, I Am Sitting in a Room, Sun Blindness Music, An Hour for Piano, City Life, Symphony No. 1, Glassworks, Electric Counterpoint, The Light, Gnarly Buttons, Songs from Liquid Days, Three Tales, Music in Twelve Parts, On the Transmigration of Souls, Fratres, Day of Niagara, Clocker, Triple Quartet, Lollapalooza, Shaker Loops, Stainless Gamelan, The Chairman Dances, Dream Interpretation, Pianophasing, Forms of Paper, Short Ride in a Fast Machine, The Flow of, Phrygian Gates, Tabula Rasa, Southern Harmony, John's Book of Alleged Dances, I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, Tromba Lontana, Hallelujah Junction, 2x5, Eight Lines, Slonimsky's Earbox, The Baluch, Violin Phase, Octet, The Wound-Dresser, American Berserk, Road Movies. Excerpt: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten (.)) is a short canon in A minor, written in 1977 by the Estonian composer Arvo Part for string orchestra and bell. The work is an early example of Part's tintinnabuli style, which he based on his reactions to early chant music. Its appeal is often ascribed to its relative simplicity; a single melodic motif dominates and it both begins and ends with scored silence. However, as the critic Ivan Hewett CBE observes, while it "may be simple in concept...the concept produces a tangle of lines which is hard for the ear to unravel. And even where the music really is simple in its audible features, the expressive import of those features is anything but." A typical performance lasts about six and a half minutes. The cantus was composed as an elegy to mourn the ...
