| 作曲者 | James MacMillan (b. 1959)・マクミラン |
| タイトル | I (A meditation on Iona) |
| 出版社 | Boosey & Hawkes（ブージー＆ホークス） |
| シリーズ名 | Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1444 |
| 楽器編成 | Strings and percussion |
| 楽器編成（詳細） | perc(1):t.bells/steel pans/lg thundersheet-strings |
| 品番 | 9790060122248 |
| 形状 | 26 ページ・Saddle stitching |
| 演奏時間 | 17分 |
| 作曲年 | 1996年 |
| 出版年 | 2011年 |
| 出版番号 | BH 12224 |
| ISMN | 979-0060122248 |
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)