How can you use Tintinnabuli to compose your own music?

To understand the composition technique used by Arvo Pärt in Für Alina more deeply, I thought I would take the “rules” of tintinnabuli that we established a few weeks ago in our Für Alina composition techniques article and video and apply them in a series of exercises. The first of these will be a contrapuntal exercise that sets Twinkle Twinkle in counterpoint with different forms of t-voice, in A-aeolian/natural-minor. In advancing the principles of the first exercise, the second exercise will experiment with harmony and tonality, discussing the effects of each. Similarly to the second exercise, the third will experiment with harmony and tonality of the t-voice, but modality between the two voices as well. The last exercise will be to create an arrangement of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, using the principles of tintinnabuli. Find out more about the Any Old Music Mailing List: Article link: Fur Alina video analysis link: ________ 00:00​ Introduction 01:09 Revising the t- and m- voice 03:46 Experimenting with the root triad of the t-voice 08:17 Experimenting with the modality of the m-voice 12:53 Twinkle Twinkle Tintinnabuli Star 15:14 Close _________ Links to Music Twinkle Twinkle Tintinnabuli Star: Tintinnabuli Counterpoint: Experimenting with modes in the m-voice: Harmonic experimentation in the t-voice: