Seven years ago, I decided to share my music through YouTube. Tintinnabulum is one of the earliest pieces I wrote. Obviously this is heavily based on Arvo Pärt.
Tintinnabulum (Latin: Bell) is a compositional style, developed by Arvo Pärt. The “rules” of this style are:
The left hand is called the tintinnabular voice: it arpeggiates exclusively on the triad of the tonic, as if it were little bells, tintinnabuli; attentive listeners will spot one single exception to this rule (as in Pärts own compositions)
The right hand plays a diatonic melodic curve moving in stepwise motion.
00:00 - Tintinnabulum n° 1
01:27 - Tintinnabulum n° 2
02:35 - Tintinnabulum n° 3
04:12 - Tintinnabulum n° 4
Samples used in this composition:
Modartt PianoTeq 7 (Standard) NY Steinway
Spitfire Contemporary Drama Toolkit - Vocals “hmm”
Sampling and Mixing in Logic Pro X
Video editing in Final Cut Pro
Music notation in Sibelius 7
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