Phillips-Hutton, A orcid.org/0000-0001-9501-9529 (2022) Transubstantiating Miserere: James MacMillan’s Compositional Theology. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 147 (1). pp. 51-76. ISSN 0269-0403
Abstract
The Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan (b. 1959) is a vocal proponent of contemporary sacred music, yet little scholarly analysis looks beyond the surface to explore how theological themes and language influence his work. This article offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between theology and music via an analysis of MacMillan’s characterization of his compositional process as ‘transubstantiation’. Far from being merely an evocative description, transubstantiation is a conceptual metaphor that signifies a distinctively eucharistic logic and practice in music. I trace these implications through MacMillan’s Miserere (2009), which reinscribes past music and rituals as part of refashioning the contemporary imagining of religion.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Musical Association. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Music (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Jan 2023 15:16 |
Last Modified: | 09 Jan 2023 15:16 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/rma.2021.21 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:194953 |
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