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Tintinnabuli

Tintinnabuli — melody and bell voice

Arvo Pärt's tintinnabuli — a systematic melody shadowed by a triad bell voice.

1 cell6 nodes2 voices
Tintinnabuli — melody and bell voice: the opening bars as grafer engraved them
The notation, exactly as grafer engraved it from the graph.

How it is built

Tintinnabuli — Arvo Pärt's two-voice technique. The Tintinnabuli Melody node generates a systematic "outward" M-voice around A4 in the diatonic A-minor mode; the Tintinnabuli Voice node shadows it with the bell (T-) voice, drawing only on the A-minor triad (inferior, 1st position). The two voices play on treble and bass staves at a slow, meditative tempo.

The graph

The node graph of Tintinnabuli — melody and bell voice in grafer's Graf editor

Nodes in this study

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