I (A meditation on Iona) 麦克米伦．詹姆士 冥想曲 总谱 博浩版

这件作品是与雕塑家苏-简-泰勒（Sue Jane Taylor）合作完成的。这是一首沉思和反省的弦乐和打击乐作品，持续约 15 分钟，大部分时间缓慢而静止。它围绕着几个反复出现的旋律动机，这些旋律以循环和插曲的结构旋转。有时，音乐素材非常简单，如单一的金属声，伴以缓慢变化的和弦，或零碎而犹豫的小提琴或中提琴独奏，伴以耐心发展的音群和和弦。有时，音乐素材则更加大胆，包括颤音、颤音、滑音、低沉的和弦以及原始简单的打击乐。整首乐曲给人的印象是圣-哥伦布曾在艾奥纳岛生活，并于 597 年去世。这是一个荒凉而美丽的地方，是一个具有深刻精神共鸣和历史意义的地方。(詹姆斯-麦克米伦）

作曲家: MacMillan, James
乐器: Strings and percussion
出版社: Boosey & Hawkes
原文简介:
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)