James MacMillan: Intermediate Sheet Music

Setting of words from the Armenian liturgy (in English): 'The offered Christ is distributed among us. Alleluia! …”.Particularly suitable for the feast of Corpus Christi and eucharistic occasions in ge...

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Gemischter Chor und Orgel, Harfe oder 3 Instrumente.

Atmospheric setting of the Advent antiphon for 21st December, 'O Radiant Dawn, Splendour of eternal light, Sun of Justice, come, shine on those who dwell in darkness ...' The organ part is a transcrip...

Atmospheric settings of poems in Scottish and in English by William Soutar (1898-1943), a central figure in the Scottish literary renaissance: Scots Song (6 mins), Ballad (4 mins) and The Children (6...

Setting of Latin text combining a versicle at Matins on the Feast of St Andrew with a fragment of a prayer attributed to him.

The Strathclyde Motets are communion motets setting propers of the mass for various Sundays and feasts. The Latin text is taken from the Graduale Romanum. The pieces are suitable for intermediate stan...

This work was composed in 2020 and was commissioned by the Lord Burghley 500 Foundation for a Service of Thanksgiving in Westminster Abbey to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of William Ce...

This short but awe-inspiring ceremonial piece was commissioned by Westminster Cathedral for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI in 2010. Organ, brass and timpani thunder around the sung text, ‘You are Pete...

Von der Britten Sinfonia und der Town Hall in Birmingham in Auftrag gegeben, wurde das Stück 2009-10 komponiert. Seine Uraufführung erlebte es mit Nicholas Daniel als Solisten und der Britten Sinfonie...

This publication gathers together three miniatures for string quartet, all composed 'in memoriam' a particular individual. Memento (4 minutes) was written in memory of the composer's friend, David Hun...

In its original scoring for mixed voices MacMillan's The Gallant Weaver has become a favourite; this arrangement now extends the setting to upper voices. Paul Spicer comments, 'This ideal introduction...

Setting of a prayer by Mother Cornelia Connelly, foundress of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus in 1846 and latterly Mayfield School. In 1863 she was inspired to transform the ruins of the Old Palac...

Composed for performance at the 2022 Cumnock Tryst, the community-based annual music festival established by James MacMillan in the Ayrshire town where he grew up. MacMillan comments that “my earliest...

The composer states that 'the piece begins with a slowly falling scale of seven notes, thrown from one player to another, repeated nine times and embellished with ornamental flurries which outline a g...

James MacMillan is the pre-eminent Scottish composer of his generation. This attractive five-minute Advent/Christmas carol for choir and organ sets a poem by Michael Symmons Roberts, a frequent collab...

Composed in 2019, James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio is a summatory work in his output, collecting together settings of poetry, liturgy and scripture which explore themes related to the birth of Jes...

Composed in 1978 this is a setting of a Dutch traditional carol. The work opens with an extended passage for solo oboe, molto rubato. The vocal writing includes sections for various combinations of vo...

The Strathclyde Motets are communion motets setting propers of the mass for various Sundays and feasts. They are suitable for intermediate standard choirs. This piece is an antiphon for 21st December,...

Die von den schottischen Hebriden stammende einfache wie schöne Melodie dieses Weihnachtsliedes zeichnet sich durch volkstümliche Atmosphäre und tänzerischen Rhythmus aus. Ein zugängliches und ungewöh...

This carol, extracted from James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio (2020), is an arrangement of the traditional Hebridean melody, ‘Tàladh Chrìosda’, with English text derived from the Scottish Gaelic of...

Berserkers were special warriors common to the Vikings and the ancient Celtic tribes who would work themselves into a frenzy with mead, mushrooms and hyperventilation to achieve performances of feroci...

New, corrected edition of MacMillan's breakthrough work, a sensation at the 1990 BBC Proms. The work is now firmly established in the contemporary orchestral repertoire worldwide and championed by lea...

Composed in 2007, this 25-minute work was commissioned by Southbank Centre for its Associate Artists, the Takács Quartet. A major addition to the contemporary string quartet repertory, the San Francis...

Composed in 1988 and revised in 1991, this 28-minute work was commissioned by the University of Glasgow's McEwen Bequest. The composer stated in 1991, \"My first string quartet, Visions of a November...