20455940
Symphony No. 2
20455940
20455940
20455940
Copyright Material for Preview Only - Sheet Music Plus
Orchestra, Score (Study Score)
SKU: HL.48024126
Hawkes Pocket Score 1554. Composed by James Macmillan. Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books. Classical. Softcover. 76 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060132148. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL.48024126).
ISBN 9781784542054. UPC: 888680708979. 8.25x12 inches. Hawkes Pocket Score 1554.
Scored for chamber orchestra and dating from 1999, this work is built on MacMillan's shorter Piano Sonata of 1985. That work was composed during a bitter Ayrshire winter: the composer recalls the barren trees and hard frozen ground of a landscape that was empty and silent but for the harsh, hollow cry from the rookeries. Throughout the three movements the music conveys a mood of elegy, despair and desolation. In Symphony no 2 the original has been 'opened up' to new forms of expansion, sometimes according to colouristic potential, at other times to dramatic or even originally unseen potential. The first movement is short and preparatory to the more extended second movement. The third movement is a brief postlude, almost an afterthought to what has been heard, during which some of the principal memories of the earlier movements are stated over some quotations from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
Orchestra, Score (Study Score)
SKU: HL.48024126
Hawkes Pocket Score 1554. Composed by James Macmillan. Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books. Classical. Softcover. 76 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060132148. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL.48024126).
ISBN 9781784542054. UPC: 888680708979. 8.25x12 inches. Hawkes Pocket Score 1554.
Scored for chamber orchestra and dating from 1999, this work is built on MacMillan's shorter Piano Sonata of 1985. That work was composed during a bitter Ayrshire winter: the composer recalls the barren trees and hard frozen ground of a landscape that was empty and silent but for the harsh, hollow cry from the rookeries. Throughout the three movements the music conveys a mood of elegy, despair and desolation. In Symphony no 2 the original has been 'opened up' to new forms of expansion, sometimes according to colouristic potential, at other times to dramatic or even originally unseen potential. The first movement is short and preparatory to the more extended second movement. The third movement is a brief postlude, almost an afterthought to what has been heard, during which some of the principal memories of the earlier movements are stated over some quotations from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
Tell a friend (or remind yourself) about this product. We'll instantly send an email containing product info and a link to it. You may also enter a personal message.
We do not use or store email addresses from this form for any other purpose than sending your share email.
Read our Privacy Policy.
After purchase, you can download your MP3 from your Sheet Music Plus Digital Library - no software installation is necessary! You can also listen to your MP3 at any time in your Digital Library.
After purchase, you can download your Smart Music from your Sheet Music Plus Digital Library - no software installation is necessary! You can also download at any time in your Digital Library.
After purchase you can download your video from your Digital Library. Your video is in XX format and is playable on most pre-installed video players.
