I (A meditation on Iona) 麥克米倫．詹姆士 冥想曲 總譜 博浩版

這件作品是與雕塑家蘇-簡-泰勒（Sue Jane Taylor）合作完成的。這是一首沉思和反省的弦樂和打擊樂作品，持續約 15 分鐘，大部分時間緩慢而靜止。它圍繞著幾個反復出現的旋律動機，這些旋律以迴圈和插曲的結構旋轉。有時，音樂素材非常簡單，如單一的金屬聲，伴以緩慢變化的和絃，或零碎而猶豫的小提琴或中提琴獨奏，伴以耐心發展的音群和和絃。有時，音樂素材則更加大膽，包括顫音、顫音、滑音、低沉的和絃以及原始簡單的打擊樂。整首樂曲給人的印象是聖-哥倫布曾在艾奧納島生活，並於 597 年去世。這是一個荒涼而美麗的地方，是一個具有深刻精神共鳴和歷史意義的地方。(詹姆斯-麥克米倫）

作曲家: MacMillan, James
樂器: Strings and percussion
出版社: Boosey & Hawkes
原文簡介:
This work came about through a collaborative experiment with the sculptress Sue Jane Taylor. It is a pensive and reflective work for strings and percussion lasting about fifteen minutes, and is mostly slow and static. It is built around a few recurrent melodic motives which revolve n a cyclic and episodic structure. Sometimes the material is very simple, like a single tolling metallic sound accompanied by slowly shifting chords, or a fragmented and hesitant solo violin or viola accompanied by patiently evolving clusters and chords. Sometimes, the material is more assertive involving trills, tremolandi and glissandi and low heavy chords with primally simple percussive ideas. The whole is intended to give an impression of the island of Iona where St. Columba lived, and died in 597. It is a place of stark and desolate beauty, a focus of deep spiritual resonance and historical significance. (James MacMillan)