Arvo Part Humour development is a political practice

development is a political practice in itself

Pursuing issues of community and identity

containing hundreds of illustrations

The book is broken into four parts: Basic Theoretical Concepts

Drawing on rich empirical research

Arvo Part Humour development is a political practiceThe music of the Estonian born composer Arvo Prt is a unique and powerful voice in the contemporary world. Using a tonal idiom based on a mixture of scales and triads, Prt created a style that he calls `tintinnabuli'. Listening to it, one is reminded of the passionate and tranquility of some Russian icon, or of certain memorable scenes in the films of Andrei Tarkovsky. In this book, the first full length study of Prt, Paul Hillier explores the