Research Catalog
James MacMillan studies
- Title
- James MacMillan studies / edited by George Parsons, Robert Sholl.
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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- Description
- xxv, 238 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- 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"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Per publisher's website part of Cambridge Composer Studies series.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index.
- 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 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.
- Call Number
- JMF 21-174
- ISBN
- 9781108492539
- 1108492533
- 9781108716871
- 1108716873
- LCCN
- 2019048225
- OCLC
- 1125302238
- Title
- James MacMillan studies / edited by George Parsons, Robert Sholl.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index.
- Added Author
- Parsons, George, 1981- editor.Sholl, Robert, editor.
- Other Form:
- Online version: James MacMillan studies [1.] New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020. 9781108592154 (DLC) 2019048226
- Research Call Number
- JMF 21-174