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The Touch Of Arvo Pärt, Gabriel Lane
The Touch Of Arvo Pärt, Gabriel Lane
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Honors Project Abstract
My project is on the modern Estonian composer, Arvo Pärt and his work Spiegel im Spiegel. Of all the pieces written by Pärt, this is one of his most popular and revered works. It has a major emotional impact on many people who listen to it, but also on me. Through my research, I have discovered compositional techniques which help the work achieve such a profound effect on a listener.
To help show these techniques to the reader, I include handwritten excerpts in my paper. This is also to avoid copyright issues. In each image presented, …