In 1976, the long silence finally gave birth to music - to the piano miniature Für Alina. It is clear that, with this piece, P art had found himself, and the compositional technique he used then for the firsttime inspires his oeuvre to this day. The technique, upon which P art has bestowed the name Tintinnabuli (Latin for 'little bells'), is achieved not through a progressive increase in complexity, but much rather results from anextreme reduction of the sonic material a