James MacMillan Studies
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Music Examples
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Struggle with Conviction: A Trio of String Quartets
- 2 Conflicting Modernities and a Modernity of Conflict in James MacMillan's The World's Ransoming
- 3 In Memoriam: James MacMillan's Violin Concerto as Modernist Lament
- 4 Reincarnating The Tryst: The Endurance of a Simple Love Song
- 5 Exquisite Violence: Imagery, Embodiment and Transformation in MacMillan
- 6 Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: MacMillan's St Luke Passion
- 7 MacMillan's 'Mission' and the Passion Settings
- 8 A Cluster of Gathering Shadows: Exposition and Exegesis in Seven Last Words from the Cross
- 9 James MacMillan's The Sun Danced: Mary, Miracle and Mysticism
- 10 'Shrouded in Doubts and Fears': The Liturgical Music of James MacMillan
- 11 Containing Chaos? Aspects of Medieval Liturgy in James MacMillan's Visitatio Sepulchri
- Bibliography
- Unspecified Authors
- Videos
- Index
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