Table of Contents: Introduction 1. Arvo Pärt and the Art of Embodiment Peter C. Bouteneff, Jeffers Engelhardt, Robert Saler 2. The Sound—and Hearing—of Arvo Pärt Peter C. Bouteneff --History and Context 3. Sounding Structure, Structured Sound Toomas Siitan 4. Colorful Dreams: Pärt’s Soviet Film Music and Tintinnabuli Christopher J. May 5. Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabuli and the Soviet Underground Kevin C. Karnes --Performance 6. The Pärt Sound Paul Hillier, in conversation with Peter Bouteneff 7. The Rest is Silence Andrew Shenton --Materiality and Phenomenology 8. Vibrating, and Silent: Pärt’s Material Acoustics Jeffers Engelhardt 9. Medieval Pärt Andrew Albin 10. The Piano and the Performing Body in the Music of Arvo Pärt: --Phenomenological Perspectives Maria Cizmic and Adriana Helbig --Theology 11. Presence, Absence, and the Ambiguities of Ambiance: Theological Discourse and the Move to Sound in Pärt Studies Robert Saler 12. The Materiality of Sound and the Theology of the Incarnation in the Music of Arvo Pärt Ivan Moody 13. Christian Liturgical Chant and the Musical Reorientation of Arvo Pärt Alexander Lingas 14. In the Beginning There Was Sound: Hearing, Tintinnabuli and Musical Meaning in Sufism