Britannia 麥克米倫．詹姆士 總譜 博浩版

不列顛尼亞 "創作於 1994 年，是為了紀念我們音樂生活中的一支重要力量--英國管弦樂隊。這部作品是英國電信公司委託英國管弦樂團協會創作的，是英國電信慶祝系列的一部分，為英國所有主要管弦樂團提供了一部新的音樂會序曲，供 1994/95 樂季演出。不列顛尼亞》是一部基於 "愛國主題 "的十分鐘管弦樂幻想曲。樂曲中沒有故事情節，但流行的旋律和引人共鳴的典故，在新穎而陌生的背景下，可能會在聽眾的腦海中激起一些令人驚奇的情景，尤其是在小沙文主義有可能再次在整個歐洲抬頭的時候。這首曲子源於今年早些時候創作的短篇小品《帝國記憶》（Mémoire Impériale），取材於 18 世紀在愛丁堡大學建立音樂系的英國軍官裡德將軍（General Reid）的一首進行曲。這一主題以及埃爾加和阿恩的 "帝國 "主題與其他素材--愛爾蘭卷軸曲（變成了吉格舞）、科克尼酒歌、其他進行曲曲調和朦朧的凱爾特調式--融合在一起。在快速的開頭部分，所有的主要構思都迅速而鮮明地一一呈現。緩慢的中段以寧靜的卡農開始，逐漸被銅管樂和打擊樂中的軍事典故所削弱。這種對峙將作品推向高潮，隨後是令人不安的尾聲。不列顛尼亞》獻給英國管弦樂團協會的 Libby MacNamara"

作曲家: MacMillan, James
樂器: Orchestra
出版社: Boosey & Hawkes
原文簡介:
Britannia was written in 1994 as a celebration of a major force in our musical life, the British orchestra. The work fulfils a commission from British Telecommunications plc with the Association of British Orchestras as part of the BT Celebration Series, and provides all the major UK orchestras with a new concert overture for performance in the 1994/95 season. Britannia is a ten-minute orchestral fantasy based on ‘patriotic themes’. There is no programme of story as such but the tapestry of popular melodies and resonant allusions, given their new and unfamiliar contexts, may provoke some surprising scenarios in the mind of the listener, particularly at a time when petty chauvinism threatens to rear up once again throughout Europe. The piece grows out of a short sketch written earlier this year, Mémoire Impériale, which is based on a march tune by General Reid, an 18th century British army officer who established the music department at Edinburgh University. This theme and the ‘imperial’ themes of Elgar and Arne are thrown into a volatile concoction with other materials – an Irish reel (which becomes a jig), a Cockney drinking song, other march tunes and a hazy Celtic modality. All the main ideas are presented in a quick and stark succession during the fast opening section. The slow middle part begins with a serene canon which is gradually undermined by military allusions on brass and percussion. This confrontation leads to the work’s climax followed by an unsettled coda. Britannia is dedicated to Libby MacNamara of the Association of British Orchestras.