Robin Maconie

Robin Maconie (born 22 October 1942 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a New Zealand composer, pianist, and writer.

Robin Maconie studied with Frederick Page and Roger Savage at the Victoria University of Wellington, receiving a Master of Arts in the History and Literature of Music in 1964. He studied analysis with Olivier Messiaen in 1963–64 at the Paris Conservatoire, and in 1964–65 studied composition for film and radio under Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, and electronic music under Herbert Eimert at the Cologne Conservatory. He also studied composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henri Pousseur, and Luc Ferrari at the Second Cologne Courses for New Music, as well as piano with Aloys Kontarsky, conducting with Herbert Schernus, and information science with Georg Heike.

Following a temporary lectureship at the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1967–69, Maconie emigrated to England to study for a PhD in the Psychology of Music at Southampton University. In 1974 Maconie was appointed lecturer in music and technology at the University of Surrey, where he continued until 1985. In 1997 he was appointed Professor of Performing Arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia (U.S.).

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, J. O'Shea) (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 for string quartet (1968)
*String Quartet (1970)
*"Limina", modified soundtrack (1975)
*Prelude, 2 insts, opt. amp, (1976)
*"Mozart-Kugel", round in 14 parts (1977)
*"Pastoral", for violin (1977)
*"Ricercar", for cello (1977)
*"Commedia", for clarinet, volin, violoncello, and piano, with amplification (1979)
*"Raku", for ensemble (1981)
*"Touché", for computer-generated sound (1983)
*"Measures", computer-generated tape (1984)
*"Night Porter’s Carol", for SATB choir (1991)

Writings

*1972. "Stockhausen's "Mikrophonie I": Perception in Action." "Perspectives of New Music" 10, no. 2 (Spring-Summer): 92–101.
*1972. "Stravinsky's Final Cadence", "Tempo" new series, no.103:18–23.
*1973. "Momente" in London." "Tempo" new series, no. 104:32–33.
*1974. "New Notations for the New Sounds." "Times Literary Supplement" (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. ISBN 0714527068. Second edition 1990. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0193154773
*1976b. "Harries' Proposed Notation for Visual Fine Art." "Leonardo" 9, no. 1 (Winter): 86–87.
*(ed.) 1989. "Stockhausen on Music: Lectures and Interviews " London; New York: Marion Boyars. ISBN 0714528870
*1990. "The Concept of Music". Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198162154
*1991. "Opera aperta." "Canzona: The Official Yearbook of the Composers' Association of New Zealand" 14, no. 34:3–8.
*1997. "The Science of Music". Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198166486
*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." "Musical Times" 139, no. 1863 (Summer): 4-11.
*2002. "The Second Sense: Language, Music, and Hearing". Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2002. ISBN 0810842424
*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: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. ISBN 0810853566

References

*Griffiths, Paul. 2001. "Maconie, Robin". "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
* [http://sounz.org.nz/contributor/composer/1066 Brief biography of composer]