James MacMillan Studies

Herausgeber: Parsons, George; Sholl, Robert

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume opens up the music and conceptual world of Sir James MacMillan. In it an international team of scholars analyses a broad selection of MacMillan's works. It engages with central features of MacMillan's compositions, especially the intersections between religion, spirituality and compositional approaches.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Composer Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781108716871
• ISBN-10: 1108716873
• Artikelnr.: 64819292

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Sir James MacMillan; Introduction George Parsons and Robert Sholl;
1. The struggle with conviction: a trio of string quartets Arnold Whittall;
2. Conflicting modernities and a modernity of conflict in James MacMillan's
The World's Ransoming George Parsons; 3. In Memoriam: James MacMillan's
violin concerto as modernist lament Chelle Stearns; 4. Reincarnating 'The
Tryst': the endurance of a simple love song Dominic Wells; 5. Exquisite
violence: imagery, embodiment and transformation in MacMillan Robert Sholl;
6. Making the familiar as unfamiliar: MacMillan's St Luke Passion Jeremy S.
Begbie; 7. MacMillan's 'mission' and the Passion settings Richard E.
McGregor; 8. A cluster of gathering shadows: exposition and exegesis in
Seven Last Words from the Cross Andrew Shenton; 9. James MacMillan's The
Sun Danced: Mary, miracle, and mysticism Peter Bannister; 10. 'Shrouded in
doubts and fears': the liturgical music of James MacMillan Phillip Cooke;
11. Containing chaos? Aspects of medieval liturgy in James MacMillan's
Visitatio Sepulchri Lisa Colton.