Holy minimalism

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre

Holy minimalism · In Soviet-era Estonia, Arvo Pärt found a sober style in 1976 that he called tintinnabuli, after the Latin word for little bells. A melody wanders slowly around while a second voice plays only the notes of a single triad. In Cantus (1977), scales descend above a tolling bell. The Pole Henryk Górecki wrote his Third Symphony in 1976; a recording from 1992 sold more than a million copies.

Listening

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  Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten (Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Dennis Russell Davies) · Arvo Pärt, 1977
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  Symfonie nr. 3: Lento e largo (Dawn Upshaw, London Sinfonietta, David Zinman) · Henryk Górecki, 1976
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  Spiegel im Spiegel (Vladimir Spivakov, Sergej Bezrodny) · Arvo Pärt, 1978

See also

• Minimal music
• Gregorian chant