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Robin Maconie
A vigorous non-technical discussion of basic acoustical, auditory, and communications processes that guide and connect musical behaviors of every age. Developed as a source book for students of art and…
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Gertrude Stein and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead were unlikely friends who spent most of their mature lives in exile: Stein in France and Whitehead in the United States. Their friendship…
This is the first study of its kind to address the presence of musical and acoustical metaphor in western science and philosophy from the time of the ancient Greeks to…
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In Experiencing Stravinsky, music historian Robin Maconie takes a completely fresh approach to understanding the great composer’s works, explaining what makes Stravinsky’s sound unique and what we, as listeners, need…
Other Planets draws on over fifty years of the author’s close study of Stockhausen and functions as a catalogue raisonee of Stockhausen’s complete output. The updated edition extends the range…
This Element hopes to draw attention to the ideas of communication and flight in western tradition. It explores Varese and his 'noble noise', the arrival and influence of Information Theory…
What is music for? How does it work? What can it teach us? This book, combining musical and appropriate scientific research, seeks the answers to these and other fundamental questions…
In this sequel to The Concept of Music , Robin Maconie teases out the musical science underlying subjects as diverse as Pythagoras’s theorem, Plato’s city state, mysteries of religion, myth…
Karlheinz Stockhausen
A modern musical genius speaks out in a unique collection of interviews, lectures and statements.
