Le renouvellement de la Passion en musique de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle à aujourd’hui : la contribution d’Arvo Pärt avec Passio (1982) et Adam’s Passion (2015)

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Supervisors

Van Wymeersch, Brigitte

Faculty

Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres

Degree label

Master [120] en histoire de l'art et archéologie, orientation musicologie, à finalité spécialisée: animation, gestion et musique

Abstract

enIn decline since the end of the golden age of Baroque oratorios, Passion music has regained the interest of composers since the second half of the 20th century. Bold in the forms, musical styles, texts and interpretations of the Gospel story, they have profoundly transformed the canons of the genre inherited from the Baroque models to give the Passion the colours of the contemporary age. Among them is Arvo Pärt, who in 1982 applied his tintinnabuli style to the entirety of his Passio, a pure and meditative work that seems to go against the grain of postmodern pluralism and eclecticism. In 2015 he created a visual and musical performance with Robert Wilson entitled Adam's Passion. This compilation of four Pärt's works (Sequentia, Adam's Lament, Tabula rasa, Miserere) offers a change of perspective: the Passion is no longer the drama of Christ but the drama of all humanity, personified in the figure of Adam. Combining musical analysis and hermeneutics, this study consists in defining the main characteristics of the renewal of the Passion and in showing how Arvo Pärt contributes to it singularly with Passio and Adam's Passion.