Tuireadh 麦克米伦．詹姆士 总谱 博浩版

Tuireadh "在盖尔语中是亡者哀歌（或安魂曲）的意思，这部作品是献给 "派珀阿尔法 "号空难的遇难者及其家属的。1988 年 7 月 6 日晚，位于北海的派珀阿尔法海上油气平台发生火灾。大火无法控制，疏散计划也不完善，结果许多人丧生，还有一些人不得不从海上获救。作曲家评论说，他的灵感特别来自于他收到的一封信，信中一位死者的母亲动情地讲述了她去现场参加追悼会的情景。母亲在信中动情地写道，她曾到现场参加一个追悼仪式，这个仪式成了那些尚未找到亲人的人的一种仪式，母亲描述了聚集在船上的哀悼者是如何自发地发出恸哭声的。Tuireadh 试图用音乐捕捉这种悲痛的流露，并暗指苏格兰传统音乐中各种哀歌形式的音程和装饰原型"

作曲家: MacMillan, James
乐器: clarinets-Quintett or clarinet and string orchestra
出版社: Boosey & Hawkes
原文简介:
Tuireadh is Gaelic for a lament (or requiem) for the dead, and this work is dedicated to the victims of the Piper Alpha disaster and their families. On the evening of 6 July 1988 a fire broke out on the Piper Alpha off-shore oil and gas platform located in the North Sea. The fire was uncontrollable and evacuation plans inadequate, and as a result many men died and others had to be rescued from the sea. The composer comments that he was specifically inspired by a letter he received from the mother of one of the dead men in which she wrote movingly of her visit to the scene for a memorial service. The ceremony became a rite of passage for those whose loved ones had not been found, and the mother described how a spontaneous keening sound rose gently from the mourners assembled on the boat. Tuireadh attempts to capture this outpouring of grief in music and makes allusions to the intervallic and ornamental archetypes of various lament-forms from Scottish traditional music.