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	Classical Net - Composers - MacMillan
		The Confession of Isobel Gowdie can be said to contain these components, the theme of a woman who was a victim of the Reformation which pursued witch-hunting with vigour, extracted confessions with torture and executed it's victims has it's parallel with the witch-hunters, whether religious or political who still exist today.
		Conducts the Confession of Isobel Gowdie with the Philharmonia in London and is subsequently appointed the orchestra's Visiting Composer.
		The Confession of Isobel Gowdie is performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Rome and on a Dutch tour by the Gelders Orkest under Kenneth Montgomery.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/acc/macmilln.html (1613 words)

	Isobel Gowdie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Isobel Gowdie, who was under trial in 1662, was a Scottish witch whose detailed confession to witchcraft, apparently achieved without the use of torture, offers one of the most detailed looks at European witchcraft folklore at the end of the era of witch-hunts.
		Isobel Gowdie and her magic have been remembered in a number of later works of culture.
		The Confessions of Isobel Gowdie is a work for symphony orchestra by the Scottish composer James MacMillan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isobel_Gowdie (278 words)

	Isobel Gowdie (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Isobel Gowdie, the renowned "Queen of Scottish Witches" (Wedeck 202), confessed in 1662 she had frequent dealings with faeries.
		Gowdie met often with the Queen and King of Faerieland.
		Gowdie claimed to have used her broom for an atypical reason.
	www.shanmonster.com /witch/witches/gowdie.html (329 words)

	Detailed classical CD information with streaming audio samples
		The reason for the immense success of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie lies partly in the passionate involvement of the composer in his subject matter.
		In 1662 a woman named Isobel Gowdie was induced under torture to confess to all manner of diabolical acts, for which she was strangled and burned at the stake.
		On behalf of the Scottish people, the works craves absolution and offers Isobel Gowdie the mercy and humanity that was denied her in the last days of her life This work is the Requiem Isobel Gowdie never had.
	www.chandos-records.com /CD_Notes.asp?CNumber=CHAN+10275 (699 words)

	Boosey and Hawkes: The home of contemporary music
		MacMillan, James: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (1990) 26'
		It is an extraordinary fact that in the centuries before the Reformation the number of known executions for witchcraft in Scotland was in single figures; but in the years between 1560 and 1707 as many as 4,500 Scots perished because their contemporaries thought they were witches.
		On behalf of the Scottish people the work craves absolution and offers Isobel Gowdie the mercy and humanity that was denied her in the last days of her life.
	www.boosey.com /pages/cr/catalogue/cat_detail.asp?musicid=3115 (384 words)

	Edinburgh Symphony Orchestra: 3 Dec 05 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Regarded as the leading composer of his time, William Walton is widely known for his film music, most memorably for his score to Henry V. His 1st Symphony was composed between 1932 and 1935.
		James McMillan composed Confessions of Isobel Gowdie in 1990.
		In 1662 Isobel Gowdie, from Nairn in Scotland, was strangled at the stake and burned in pitch after having confessed to being a witch and consorting with the devil.
	www.edinburghsymphonyorchestra.org.uk /3dec05.html (159 words)

	The Visions of Isobel Gowdie - Emma Wilby
		The confessions of Isobel Gowdie are widely recognised as the most extraordinary on record in Britain.
		Using historical, psycho- logical, comparative religious and anthropological perspectives this book sets out to separate the voice of Isobel Gowdie from that of her interrogators, and to determine the experiences and beliefs which may have generated her confessions.
		The author argues that close analysis of Isobel’s testimony supports the view that in seventeenth-century Britain popular spirituality was shaped by a deep interaction between Christian teachings and shamanistic visionary traditions, of pre-Christian origin.
	www.sussex-academic.co.uk /sa/titles/history/wilbygowdie.htm (401 words)

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		James MacMillan - The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (Bis) *****
		Thirteen years after its first performance, The Confession Of Isobel Gowdie remains vivid, shocking, and profoundly original.
		Gowdie refers to the persecution of so-called witches during the Reformation, in particular to one woman who was forced to confess before being strangled and burned.
	www.sundayherald.com /print30396 (406 words)

	Dark Blessing - Art - Confessions of Isobel Gowdie
		For a regular explanation (as regular as this can get), this is the supposed visions of Isobel Gowdie in 1662 during witch trials.
		The demons are based on the satirical picture made by George Cruikshank (Black John Chastising the Witches) and the rest is my own interpretation.
		Isobel was forced to make a whole catologue of crazy confessions, and in the eyes of the christians at the time, this is much what would be thought to occur when she was doing unholy rituals.
	www.darkblessing.com /IMGconfessionsofisobelgowdie.html (149 words)

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		Ballad of Isobel Gowdie Creeping Myrtle Ballad of Isobel Gowdie c 2003 Randal Prater BMI Fauns and Sylvans Incubi Cold as spring water Inside of you Isobel Darkest light
		History The most celebrated Scottish witch was Isobel Gowdie whose confession provided a detailed insight into th real or imagined activities and delusions of the archetypal witch.
		Gowdie was one of many hundreds of women executed for witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland
	paraneoplastic.blog3.bloggedsite.com /1143383601.html (1539 words)

	Simple Magick: August 2006
		Between April and May 1662, Isobel Gowdie, a Scottish housewife from Auldearn in Morayshire, shocked her small community by revealing she was a witch.
		She made four confessions in all, recounting in fascinating and explicit detail most of the elements that make up our popular idea of what it means to be a witch.
		Gowdie spoke at length about the sabbath, the coven, her magical powers and, perhaps most interesting for contemporary readers, her licentious relations with the devil.
	www.simplemagick.com /2006_08_01_archive.html (3978 words)

	Symphony 3 / Confession Of Isobel Gowdie - SHOP.COM
		Symphony 3 / Confession Of Isobel Gowdie - SHOP.COM
		MacMillan: Symphony no 3, The Confession of Isobel Gowdie
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	John Callow
		He has appeared on most major UK TV and radio channels, written for The Guardian and The Independent.
		14th June: John Callow - Isobel Gowdie, the Queen of the Witches
		John Callow, historian of early modern magic and witchcraft, brings alive the tale of the infamous Isobel Gowdie, accused of witchcraft in 17th-century Scotland.
	www.johncallow.co.uk /news.html (207 words)

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		BBC - Radio 3 - Discovering Music Archive In 1662 Isobel Gowdie, from Nairn in Scotland, was strangled at the stake and burned in pitch after having confessed to being a witch and consorting with the devil.
		Harrison Birtwistle, Sofia Gubaidulina, and the late Alfred Schnittke The Confession of Isobel Gowdie JAMES M AC MILLAN.
		Detailed classical CD information with streaming audio samples The premiere at the 1990 Proms of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie was a key event in the history of modern British Music.
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		Marin Alsop unleashes a storm of demons with The Confession of Isobel Gowdie.
		But that''s exactly where they found themselves when Marin Alsop and the Cabrillo Music Festival orchestra drew their sellout Sunday afternoon crowd into a shrieking vortex of insanity, James MacMillan''s The Confession of Isobel Gowdie.
		Somehow, it seemed altogether appropriate that this exorcism of demons should take place in the sanctified precincts of the mission church in San Juan Bautista.
	www.montereycountyweekly.com /articles/4022 (635 words)

	MacMillan, Prokofiev, Brahms: Midori (violin), New York Philharmonic, Marin Alsop (conductor), Avery Fisher Hall, New ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Before beginning James MacMillan’s The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (that put him on the compositional map), Marin Alsop turned to the audience to comment on its subject matter: a Scottish woman who was one of thousands suspected of witchcraft between 1560 and 1707.
		After a quiet opening, Macmillan gradually increases the decibel level, ever more piercing, depicting the horrible pain inflicted on Gowdie, culminating in a violent middle section filled with huge orchestral outbursts, and then recedes, perhaps accompanying Gowdie’s ascent into a calmer plane as she finds some peace in death.
		I’m a great admirer of MacMillan’s work, having heard his impressive Third Symphony (“Silence”) and sonically unhinged A Scotch Bestiary last season, and although I don’t think Gowdie is quite in the same league, as an earlier work it is valuable for its insight into his growth.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2005/Jul-Dec05/alsop1510.htm (661 words)

	'MacMillan - The Confession of Isobel Gowdie' by James MacMillan from The Portsmouth Chorus.
		'MacMillan - The Confession of Isobel Gowdie' by James MacMillan from The Portsmouth Chorus.
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	MacMillan: Confession of Isobel Gowdie, etc / Vänskä, et al by Frost / Macmillan / Vanska CD
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	MacMillan: Symphony no 3, The Confession of Isobel Gowdie CD
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	BBC - Radio 3 - Discovering Music Archive
		In 1662 Isobel Gowdie, from Nairn in Scotland, was strangled at the stake and burned in pitch after having confessed to being a witch and consorting with the devil.
		Composer James MacMillan was drawn by the dramatic potential of this horrific event to compose what he has described as a "complicated act of contrition - the requiem that Isobel Gowdie never had".
		James MacMillan joins Stephen Johnson to reveal how the work was composed and the ways in which he has tried to capture the soul of Scotland in music.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/discoveringmusic/audioarchive.shtml (2256 words)

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	James Macmillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, etc - Scottish Music Centre Shop
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