Arvo Pärt - For Alena

A piece by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt who invented the tonal practice known as "tintinnabulation". This particular piece is in B minor and is strikingly mournful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintinnabuli

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[pcma1970]

Extremely well done. Beautiful performance I'm delighted. Congratulations

[EdwardWhelanPiano]

Thanks for the comment and the response, much appreciated!

[lionsteve29]

wonderful,,extremely well played.. I am sure you are playing at right speed, but just wondered how it would feel if it was really slowed down ?.just fel that its the tyoe of music you never want to end....

thank you for posting and look forward to hearing more of your playing.....

[EdwardWhelanPiano]

Thanks for your kind comment! There are many ways of performing this piece and I agree it would feel more "eternal" if slowed down to a snail's pace. An excelent Arvo Pärt piece that doesn't seem to end is 'Tabula Rasa', go check it out!

[thrashmetalteen]

I agree, very mournful. Don't you think it's ironic that the most simple music can provoke complicated thoughts and feelings, disturbing mental images and complex realities, when the most complicated music often clouds the mind into a state whereby it cannot think as clearly and in depth?

[EdwardWhelanPiano]

Simple music like this can very easily bring you into a meditative state that allows your mind to wander. However, my subjective musical experience involves a need for a certain degree of complexity from time to time. Take Mozart's music for example, painfully simple on its surface, but its key structures and use of structural dissonance is overwhelmingly complex in some instances. That's what i like; a good balance!

[Melowmaniak]

I would love to have the sheets for this song! Can anyone help pllleeasse!

[4Topwood]

Your quicker tempo makes the music less abstract, more like water falling.

I'm used to the slower tempo and like it but this is quite nice. Thank you.

[lionsteve29]

Tabula Rasa? will go and find. thanks for the information.

good luck with your playing.

[EdwardWhelanPiano]

It's a method of playing the notes of the tonic triad (left hand), and a melody made of notes in the scale (right hand.) Very simple, yet very effective.