Resources: Sir James MacMillan
compiled by Chelle Stearns
MacMillan Essays and Talks:
MacMillan, James. “God, Theology, and Music.” In Stephen Darlington and Alan Kreider, eds. Composing Music for Worship, 35–50. Canterbury Press, 2011, 40.
_____. “Public Lecture: The Spiritual in Music.” Sawatsky Visiting Scholar at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ontario, March 1, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9P0MZrleVE.
_____. “On Being a Christian Composer.” Sounding the Passion: Encounters in Poetry, Theology, and Music Symposium. Duke University, Durham, NC, April 10, 2014.
_____. “Why Sacred Music Endures.” Image Journal 63 (Fall 2009), 81–88. https://imagejournal.org/article/sacred-music-endures/.
Books:
Phillip A. Cooke, The Music of James MacMillan (Boydell Press, 2019).
James MacMillan, A Scots Song: A Life of Music (Birlinn Press, 2019). (Which was released on my birthday!)
George Parsons and Robert Scholl, eds., The Cambridge Companion to James MacMillan (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming [in March or April of 2020]).
Ph.D. Dissertations:
Parsons, George, “Metaphor as a Tool for Theologically-Informed Musical Analysis of Sir James MacMillan’s Triduum,” PhD Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2016, http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15760/1/Parsons%20PhD%20Final%20Corrected%20Version.pdf.
Wells, Dominic Peter, “James MacMillan: Retrospective Modernist,” Ph.D. Thesis, Durham University, 2012, http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5932/1/James_MacMillan_-_Retrospective_Modernist.pdf?DDD23.
Interviews:
Boyce, Cary, “Composer James MacMillan,” Indiana Public Media website, Profiles, November 26, 2006, https://indianapublicmedia.org/profiles/james-macmillan/.
Dickson, Amy, and James MacMillan. “Amy Dickson and Sir James MacMillan in Conversation.” Amy Dickson Plays MacMillan Saxophone Concerto. Scottish Chamber Orchestra. April 2018. https://www.sco.org.uk/latest/1347-april-2018-amy-dickson-plays-macmillan-saxophone-concerto.
Katy Hamilton, “Interview: Sir James MacMillan in Conversation at ISM Members Day 2018,” Incorporated Society of Musicians at LSO St. Lukes, April 26, 2018, https://www.ism.org/videos/interview-sir-james-macmillan-in-conversation-at-ism-members-day-2018.
MacMillan 1998: James MacMillan interviewed during the 1998 Vancouver New Music Festival, available online at: http://web.archive.org/web/20030418031812/www.sfu.ca/twentieth-century-ltd/macmillan1.html(also macmillan2 and macmillan3).
James MacMillan and Richard McGregor. “James MacMillan: a conversation and commentary.” The Musical Times 151:1912 (Autumn 2010), 69–100.
Joylon Mitchell, “Sound of Heart,” Third Way 22/5 (1999), 18–21.
