Britannia 麦克米伦．詹姆士 总谱 博浩版

不列颠尼亚 "创作于 1994 年，是为了纪念我们音乐生活中的一支重要力量--英国管弦乐队。这部作品是英国电信公司委托英国管弦乐团协会创作的，是英国电信庆祝系列的一部分，为英国所有主要管弦乐团提供了一部新的音乐会序曲，供 1994/95 乐季演出。不列颠尼亚》是一部基于 "爱国主题 "的十分钟管弦乐幻想曲。乐曲中没有故事情节，但流行的旋律和引人共鸣的典故，在新颖而陌生的背景下，可能会在听众的脑海中激起一些令人惊奇的情景，尤其是在小沙文主义有可能再次在整个欧洲抬头的时候。这首曲子源于今年早些时候创作的短篇小品《帝国记忆》（Mémoire Impériale），取材于 18 世纪在爱丁堡大学建立音乐系的英国军官里德将军（General Reid）的一首进行曲。这一主题以及埃尔加和阿恩的 "帝国 "主题与其他素材--爱尔兰卷轴曲（变成了吉格舞）、科克尼酒歌、其他进行曲曲调和朦胧的凯尔特调式--融合在一起。在快速的开头部分，所有的主要构思都迅速而鲜明地一一呈现。缓慢的中段以宁静的卡农开始，逐渐被铜管乐和打击乐中的军事典故所削弱。这种对峙将作品推向高潮，随后是令人不安的尾声。不列颠尼亚》献给英国管弦乐团协会的 Libby MacNamara"

作曲家: MacMillan, James
乐器: Orchestra
出版社: Boosey & Hawkes
原文简介:
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.