Pärt: For Alina; Variations for the Healing of Arinushka for PianoIn 1976, the long silence finally gave birth to music to the piano miniature Fr Alina. It is clear that, with this piece, Prt had found himself, and the compositional technique he used then for the first time inspires his oeuvre to this day. The technique, upon which Prt has bestowed the name Tintinnabuli (Latin for 'little bells'), is achieved not through a progressive increase in complexity, but much rather results from an extreme reduction of the