Robin John Maconie (born 22 October 1942) is a New Zealand

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, and

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. Born in

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, New Zealand, Maconie studied with Frederick Page and Roger Savage at the

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, receiving a Master of Arts in the History and Literature of Music in 1964. He studied analysis with

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in 1963–64 at the

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, and in 1964–65 studied composition for film and radio under

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, and electronic music under Herbert Eimert at the Cologne Conservatory. He also studied composition with

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, and Luc Ferrari at the Second Cologne Courses for New Music at the , also in Cologne, as well as piano with Aloys Kontarsky, conducting with Herbert Schernus, and information science with Georg Heike. Following a temporary lectureship at the

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, New Zealand, in 1967–69, Maconie emigrated to England to study for a Ph.D in the Psychology of Music at Southampton University. In 1974 Maconie was appointed lecturer in music and technology at the

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, where he continued until 1985. In 1997 he was appointed Professor of Performing Arts at the

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(U.S.). In 2002 he returned to New Zealand, where he lives in

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Compositions (selective list)

*''Epstein'' (film score), for flute, oboe, and bassoon (1960) *Sonata, for clarinet and piano (1961) *''No Man Is an Island'' (film score), for speaker, solo voices, chorus, and horn (1961) *''Sound of Seeing'' (film score, A. Williams) (1962) *''Basia Memoranda'' (song cycle), voice and string quartet (1962) *''Canzona'', for chamber orchestra (1962) *''Music for a Masque'', for strings (1962) *''Six Easy Pieces'', for piano (1962) *''Three Pieces'', for cello (1962) *'' Runaway'' (film score,

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film), (1963) *''Forbush and the Penguins'' (radio play) (1966) *''The First Wife'', radio play, (1967) *''Maui'' (TV ballet, Maconie, after J. White: Ancient History of Maori), speaker, mime, 6 male dancers, and orchestra (1967–72, rev. 1986) *''Four-Part Invention'', for piano (1963) *''A:B:A'', for harp (1964) *''Ex evangelio Sancti Marci'', for chorus (1964) *''A:D:C'', for piano (1965) *''Solo'', d, vc, (1965) *''Who will be the next statistic?'', electronic music (1966) *''Sonata in Binary Form'', for string quartet (1968) *String Quartet (1970) *''Limina'', modified soundtrack (1975) *Prelude, for 2 amplified melody instruments (1976) *''Mozart-Kugel'', round in 14 parts (1977) *''Pastoral'', for violin (1977) *''Ricercar'', for cello (1977) *''Commedia'', for clarinet, violin, violoncello, and piano, with amplification (1979) *''Raku'', for ensemble (1981) *''Touché'', five movements for computer-generated sound (1983) *''Measures'', computer-generated tape (1984) *''Night Porter’s Carol'', for SATB choir (1991) *15 Songs for ''The Caucasian Chalk Circle'' (after Brecht) (2001) *''Lachrymae: Six Movements for String Orchestra'' (2005) *''Gold Fever'', 21 songs from the gold rush era, for schools and amateurs (2007)

Writings

*1972. "Stockhausen's '' Mikrophonie I'': Perception in Action." ''

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'' 10, no. 2 (Spring–Summer): 92–101. *1972. "Stravinsky's Final Cadence", ''

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'', New Series, no. 103:18–23. *1973. "''

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'' in London." ''Tempo'', New Series, no. 104:32–33. *1974. "New Notations for the New Sounds." ''

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'' (21 June) *1974. "Stockhausen's '' Inori''." ''Tempo'', New Series, no. 111 (December): 32–33. *1976a. ''The Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen''. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press. . Second edition 1990. Oxford: Clarendon Press. *1976b. "Harries' Proposed Notation for Visual Fine Art." '' Leonardo'' 9, no. 1 (Winter): 86–87. *(ed.) 1979. ''The Young World of Early Music''. Supplement to ''

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'' 7 no. 3 (July 1979). Oxford: Oxford University Press; New York: New York: Cumberlege. *1980. ''Tuning In''. Script for

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'' Omnibus'' TV documentary on Karlheinz Stockhausen, directed by Barrie Gavin. *(ed.) 1989. ''Stockhausen on Music: Lectures and Interviews'' London; New York: Marion Boyars. . Paperbound 1991; new edition 2000. Korean edition 1995; Portuguese (Brazil) edition 2009; Chinese edition 2009. *1990. ''The Concept of Music''. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press. . Spanish edition, as ''La música como concepto'', translated by José Luis Gil Aristu. El Acantilado 154. Barcelona: Acantilado, 2007. . *1991. "Opera aperta." ''Canzona: The Official Yearbook of the Composers Association of New Zealand'' 14, no. 34:3–8. *1994. ''Hutchinson Pocket Dictionary of Classical Music''. Oxford: Helicon Press. US edition 1997, Lincolnwood, Illinois: NTC Publishing Group *1997. ''The Science of Music''. Oxford: Clarendon Press. *1998a. "An Open Letter to New Zealand Composers." ''Canzona: The Official Yearbook of the Composers Association of New Zealand'' 19, no. 40:23–24. *1998b. "Stockhausen at 70: Through the Looking Glass." ''

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'' 139, no. 1863 (Summer): 4–11. *2002. ''The Second Sense: Language, Music, and Hearing''. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. *2004. "Message of ''Light'': Goethe, Stockhausen and the New Enlightenment." ''Tempo'' 58, no. 230 (October): 2–8. *2005. ''Other Planets: The Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen''. Lanham, Maryland; Toronto; Oxford: Scarecrow Press. . *2007. ''The Way of Music: Aural Training for the Internet Generation''. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. *2010. ''Musicologia: Musical Knowledge from Plato to John Cage''. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. . *2012. ''Avant Garde: An American Odyssey from Gertrude Stein to Pierre Boulez''. Lanham, Maryland; Toronto; Plymouth (UK): Scarecrow Press. . *2013. ''Experiencing Stravinsky: A Listener's Companion''. Lanham, Maryland, Toronto, Plymouth, UK: Scarecrow Press. (cloth); (ebook). *2016. ''Other Planets: The Complete Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen 1950–2007'', updated edition. Lanham, Maryland, and London: Rowman & Littlefield. .

References

* Griffiths, Paul. 2001. "Maconie, Robin (John)". ''

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'', second edition, edited by

Stanley Sadie Stanley John Sadie (; 30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was a British musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the '' Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' (1980), which was published as the first edition ...

and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.

External links

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