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V. Documentation of the actions related to the DLA Thesis
dissertation’s domain
PÉTER ZOMBOLA
Bibliography:
THE ORIGIN OF THE TINTINNABULI
SYSTEM, ITS DEVELOPMENT AND
Hillier, Paul: Arvo Pärt, Oxford University Press, 1997 FORMS OF APPEARANCE IN ARVO
Mészáros, Péter: Idő – Ember – Zene. Időkapcsolatok PÄRT’S WORKS

Arvo Pärtnél a Sieben Magnificat-antiphonen című
darabjának tükrében, Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti
Egyetem, 2006 SUPERVISER: BARNABÁS DUKAY
Pärt, Arvo: Collected Choral Works, Universal Edition,

1999
Kelemen, Imre: A zene története 1750-ig, Editio Musica

Budapest Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
DLA Program
Jeppesen, Knud: Ellenpont, Editio Musica Budapest,
1975
Brockhaus-Riemann: Zenei lexikon, Editio Musica

Budapest, 1985
Budapest
2009
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I. The Premises of the Research I have found that the origin of tintinnabuli style is
in the Gregorian canto and the renaissance chorale.
I already became acquainted with Arvo Pärt’s music in Within the latter I primarily meant Ockeghem’s and
the secondary school. Since then I have studied his entire Palestrina’s works and their technique of composing
life and work minutely. Besides scores, international which I felt is similar to the tintinnabuli style and Pärts
technical literature and audio materials - as Pärts is one of works constructually as well as in reasoning. This system
those lucky authors whose one single piece can be can be seen throughout the presented pieces of work. I
published even in 33 different CD recordings1 - I also got tried to put the results into a broader context which makes
to know a large number of films to which his music was up one whole unit together with the carful and extensive
used. Most of the foreign technical literature on Pärt’s life analysis
emphasize and analyze only few pieces by presenting the
characteristics of tintinnabuli style of the given
composition or discussing the history of tintinnabuli
style. Practically there is no Hungarian technical
literature, altogether only one thesis,2 a few articles and
one criticism published in a journal, called Muzsika,
specialize on this topic. For this reason the aim of my
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Mészáros, Péter: Idő – Ember – Zene. Időkapcsolatok Arvo Pärtnél
a Sieben Magnificat-antiphonen című darabjának tükrében, Liszt
Ferenc Academy of Music, 2006
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works, the works with collage technique and the first doctorial dissertation is to at least partially make up this
tintinnabuli piece, Für Alina. shortage.
The detailed presentation of the tintinnabuli
system can be found in the third chapter. Point by point I II. Sources
examine its sound system, voice types, scoring, rhythmic
and all the other possible segments. The main source of my dissertation was Paul Hillier’s
In the most lengthy, chapter four, I analyze the book on Arvo Pärt which seems to be the only relatively
most significant pieces of tintinnabuli style from the comprehensive work on the author’s life and the method
vocal and orchestral work through the chamber music till of tintinnabuli editing.3 This book follows the author’s
music written for recital instrument all the important career till the mid 90’s. Besides the official website
pieces of work take their place in this chapter. edited by David Pinkerton the official website of
In the fifth chapter I briefly review the application Universal was great assistance to me.
of tintinnabuli works in related arts primarily in cinematic Further information was provided by the Hungarian
art. sources and official movie websites I have mentioned
In the second part of this chapter I transpose the before. In connection with the basic questions and notions
general approach of analysis with a rather music of tintinnabuli style I used the Brockhaus-Riemann, the
psychological approach meaning putting up questions Bohm musical dictionaries and the online Hungarian
which might be asked by several contemporary artists for Explanatory Dictionary. I compliment my appendix with
themselves but might not be answered. I can not promise aesthetic and psychological approaches to which I used
to give answers in all instances but I will try to come up books and studies of Ehmann Bea and Eric Berne.
with more aspects – principally mine – based on Arvo
Pärt’s music and the system of tintinnabuli style. 3
Hillier, Paul: Arvo Pärt, Oxford University Press, 1997
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III. Method like Cser Ádám, the choirmaster of Victoria

Kamarakórus, Mészáros Péter, the conductor of the Arpa
My first and at the same time most important step was the d’Or Énekegyüttes, Nagy Bernadett and one of the
analysis of the composer’s pieces of work. The Universal leaders of Discantus Énekegyüttes. In the appendix I
published all of Pärt’s work thus I could collect them examined two other aspects of Arvo Pärt’s music. First of
from musical libraries, colleges and music shops of all I write about the movies which used his music or were
Vienna and Amsterdam. I have made an effort to gather inspired of that. To these analysises I got great help from
not only the necessary scores but also the recordings my friends who are outstanding talents of the latest
available. A lot of recordings of Pärt’s mostly played generation of film directors. Finally I outlined the
pieces of work have been published and for this reason I psychological reference of his music to which my
certainly have not managed to get them all. However I psychiatrist and psychologist friends and their
still have enough sources to get a full picture of his entire recommended books were of a great help.
life work.
Apart from the analysis of the scores and recordings I IV. Results
also read the technical literature with special regard to the
above mentioned book of Hillier. In connection with the In the first chapter I start with a brief introduction to
origin of tintinnabuli system it was inevitable to examine Arvo Pärt’s life since the technical literature in Hungarian
the music of previous periods, most importantly the has not been published yet.
works of Renaissance composers. Besides musical In chapter two I am going to write about the
examples related arts are mentioned such as architecture development of tintinnabuli style and the pathway leading
and cinematic art. I regularly carried on discussions with to its development. This includes the early scerilist
the Hungarian lecturers and experts of Arvo Pärt’s work

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V. Documentation of the actions related to the DLA Thesis

Mészáros, Péter: Idő – Ember – Zene. Időkapcsolatok PÄRT’S WORKS

Pärt, Arvo: Collected Choral Works, Universal Edition,

Kelemen, Imre: A zene története 1750-ig, Editio Musica

Brockhaus-Riemann: Zenei lexikon, Editio Musica

III. Method like Cser Ádám, the choirmaster of Victoria

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