Intentionally-Cultural Aspects of the Tintinnabuli Style and Сreativity of Arvo Pärt

Abstract

The article is devoted to the tintinabuli style and creativity of the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. The relevance of the research is due to the need to determine the distinctiveness of these phenomena, their underlying culture which gives possibility to characterize them in the context of the procedural being of European culture and patterns of its development in intentional period of its formation (the end of ХІХ – the beginning of the ХХІ centuries. The purpose of article is to analyze the tintinnabuli style and Arvo Pärt creativity in the context of the author's concept of culture and art intentionalism. The study used such research methods as cultural-historical in consideration of the tintinnabuli style and Arvo Pärt creativity in the context of the procedural European culture being in intentional period of its formation; procedural-structural in determining the structural dynamics and meanings, which determine the development of musical culture of the 20th - early 21st centuries; intentional-cultural - in defining the basic principles of intentionalism which determine their development. Scientific novelty of the work lies in the development of new research direction which is based on cultural basis and author’s conception of culture and art intentionalitsm. Tintinnabuli style and works of Arvo Pärt are distinctive by extraordinary originality. There aren’t any analogues of this style as well as the techniques of composition in the modern music culture. At the same time tintinnabuli style and Pärt’s creativity aren’t beyond the scope and express the specific content of European culture being in the final – intentional - period of its development. The peculiarity of these phenomena is conditioned by intention modeling, aimed at the research of accomplished cultural formation based on the actualization such basic principles of intentionalism as phenomenologism, prognostics as well as peripherality, intro-retrospection and compilation, extention in their phenomenological and prognostics content.