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

Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. The university is well kno ...

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

Olivier Messiaen Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist who was one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex; harmonically ...

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

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at the

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. He also studied composition with

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Henri Pousseur Henri Léon Marie-Thérèse Pousseur (23 June 1929 – 6 March 2009) was a Belgian classical composer, teacher, and music theorist. Biography Pousseur was born in Malmedy and studied at the Academies of Music in Liège and in Brussels from 1947 t ...

, and

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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

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. 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 Dannevirke.

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." ''

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'' 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

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. *(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

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'' 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)". ''

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and theo ...

'', second edition, edited by

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

and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.

External links

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