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  • 6 - Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: MacMillan’s St Luke Passion

  • Edited by George Parsons, Robert Sholl, Royal Academy of Music, London
  • Book:
    James MacMillan Studies
    Published online:
    20 August 2020
    Print publication:
    06 August 2020, pp 111-128

  • Summary

    MacMillan’s St Luke Passion was generated in part through a process that entailed the composer working with a group of theologians from Duke and Cambridge Universities. This, in addition to the fact it sets a biblical text, makes it an eminently suitable work to consider from a distinctively theological point of view. This chapter will focuses on a number of unusual features of the score: for example, the way in which Luke’s passion narrative is set in the wider context of the Annunciation and the Ascension; the assignment of the part of Jesus to a girls’ choir; the manner in which the work invites a strongly gendered (‘feminine’) reading when set in contrast to MacMillan’s (arguably more ‘masculine’) St John Passion; the extensive use of rich tonal material within the narrative sections; and the relatively modest orchestral and choral forces MacMillan deploys in ‘dramatic’ works. Attention will be paid to the extent to which these factors are associated with the distinctiveness and uniqueness of the Lucan text itself, and the extent to which they derive from non-Scriptural factors.

  • The Hermeneutical Significance of Chapter Divisions in Ancient Gospel Manuscripts

  • James R. Edwards
  • Journal:
    New Testament Studies / Volume 56 / Issue 3 / July 2010
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 May 2010, pp. 413-426
    Print publication:
    July 2010

  • The study commences with the five major ways of dividing the gospels in Christian history, after which the focus falls on the hermeneutical significance of the Old Greek Divisions. The most defining characteristic of the Divisions is their tendency to demarcate chapters on the basis of the miracles and parables of Jesus. In lieu of miracles or parables, major units of Jesus' teaching also determine Old Greek Divisions. The Synoptic passion narratives, and particularly Matthew's, display the greatest precision and organization among the Divisions. Titles of divisions aided in locating specific passages, identified corresponding material in the gospels by the same title, and when read or memorized in sequence offered an overview of the gospel narratives.