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Title James MacMillan studies / edited by George Parsons, Robert Sholl
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 238 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Series Cambridge composer studies
Cambridge composer studies
Contents Foreword / Sir James MacMillan -- Introduction / George Parsons and Robert Sholl -- The Struggle with Conviction : A Trio of String Quartets / Arnold Whittall -- Conflicting Modernities and a Modernity of Conflict in James MacMillan's The World's Ransoming / George Parsons -- In Memoriam : James MacMillan's Violin Concerto as Modernist Lament / Chelle Stearns -- Reincarnating 'The Tryst' : The Endurance of a simple Love Song / Dominic Wells -- Exquisite Violence : Imagery, Embodiment and Transformation in MacMillan /Robert Sholl -- Making the Familiar as Unfamiliar : MacMillan's St Luke Passion / Jeremy S. Begbie -- MacMillan's 'Mission' and the Passion Settings / Richard E. McGregor -- A Cluster of Gathering Shadows : Exposition and Exegesis in Seven Last Words from the Cross / Andrew Shenton -- James MacMillan's The Sun Danced : Mary, Miracle, and Mysticism / Peter Bannister -- 'Shrouded in doubts and fears' : The Liturgical Music of James MacMillan / Phillip Cooke -- Containing Chaos? Aspects of Medieval Liturgy in James MacMillan's Visitatio Sepulchri / Lisa Colton
Summary "The Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan is one of the major figures of contemporary music, with a world-wide reputation for his modernist engagement with religious images and stories. Beginning with a substantial foreword from the composer himself, this collection of scholarly essays offers analytical, musicological, and theological perspectives on a selection of MacMillan's musical works. The volume includes a study of embodiment in MacMillan's music; a theological study of his St Luke Passion; an examination of the importance of lament in a selection of his works; a chapter on the centrality of musical borrowing to MacMillan's practice; a discussion of his liturgical music; and detailed analyses of other works including The World's Ransoming and the seminal Seven Last Words from the Cross. The chapters provide fresh insights on MacMillan's musical world, his compositional practice, and his relationship to modernity"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 01, 2020)
Subject MacMillan, James, 1959- -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT MacMillan, James, 1959- fast (OCoLC)fst00315288
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Parsons, George, 1981- editor
Sholl, Robert, editor
LC no. 2019048226
ISBN 9781108592154
1108592155