The Bible and Music

I enjoyed listening to Dr. Saler talk yesterday in class, his passion and knowledge on Arvo Part made me very intrigued on this composer. In addition, the power point handout was very helpful. His background in dodecaphony was interesting, in that it seemed to have a lot of components, but it was still simple at some parts of the song. For instance, I thought there were a lot of different “segments or parts” in the song each with its own intensity and mood. On the contrary, each part was simple; it did not seem like there were a lot of instruments involved with each part. After he released a piece called “Credo” he fell into an unfavorable view with the soviets, that caused him to go on hiatus.

Dr. Saler, also, talked about how he developed tinitinnabuli technique. It was odd because when he played it, I thought it was soothing and very light, but I did not like it. It was too simple. Unfortunately, right after this I had to leave so I do not really know what was discussed after that