PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Novak, Manfred
TI  - James MacMillan's Liturgical Music Involving the Singing Congregation
DP  - 2019 Jun 11
TA  - Musicologica Olomucensia
PG  - 85--104
VI  - 29
IP  - 1
AID - 10.5507/mo.2019.006
IS  - 27879186
AB  - James MacMillan is one of the few internationally renowned composers who embraced the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council with its key concept of participatio actuosa and wrote music involving the congregation. With regard to these works, the following questions are discussed and answered: In what way did he compose for untrained singers so that they are able to sing his compositions? Which stylistic compromises did he accept and how are they artistically justifiable? How does his liturgical music involving the congregation relate to liturgical theological concepts?