Spiegel im Spiegel  

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Spiegel im Spiegel is a piece of music written by Arvo Pärt in 1978, just prior to his departure from Estonia. The piece is in the tintinnabular style of composition, wherein a melodic voice, operating over diatonic scales, and tintinnabular voice, operating within a triad on the tonic, accompany each other. It is about ten minutes long.

Adaptation

The piece has been used in television, film and theatre including:

Film

Dance

• David Nixon's Dracula performed by the Northern Ballet (UK, 2009)
• Pilobolus' Rushes in a scene choreographed using chairs. (US, 2007)
• Christopher Wheeldon's 2005 ballet After the Rain, part two (Pärt's "Tabula Rasa" is the score to part one)
• John Neumeier's ballet Othello (1985), the central pas de deux (Pärt's "Tabula Rasa" is the score to part two)
• Mats Ek's Smoke performed by Sylvie Guillem and Niklas Ek (1995)

Theatre

• The New York production of Eurydice, a play by Sarah Ruhl (2007)
• Venezuelan production called 120 vidas x minuto ("120 Lives a Minute"), a play by Gustavo Ott (2007)
• Czech production of Forgotten Light ("Zapomenuté světlo"), a play by Jakub Deml

Television

• The BBC documentary Touched by Auschwitz (2015)
• The BBC drama Hattie (2011)
• The RTS (Radio and Television of Serbia) and Colossal production documentary "Izgubljeni orden" (The lost Medal) (2010)
• The BBC television series Criminal Justice (2009)
• It was also used in a 2008 episode of the British medical drama Casualty, when character Dr. Ruth Winters attempted suicide, and again in January 2010 when Dr. Adam Trueman's son, Harry Trueman, dies after a car accident.
• The season two episode of Supernatural entitled "What is and What Should Never Be" (2007)
• The BBC documentary Auschwitz: The Nazis and 'The Final Solution' (2005)
• The BBC dramatisation of Elizabeth Gaskell's 'North & South' (2004) – theme for the romantic railway station closing-scene
• The BBC documentary Century of the Self (2002) by Adam Curtis
• The BBC documentary John Steinbeck: Voice of America (2011) by Melvyn Bragg
• The HBO television movie Wit (2001)
• The FOX television show Simpsons episode 534 Yolo (2013)
• The RTÉ News (Radio Telefís Éireann) Ireland, on New Year's Eve, at the end of news editions as a memoriam to victims of road traffic deaths during the yearTemplate:Cn