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Collection Overview

Title: Michael Manion Music and Papers, 1965-2008

ID: 26/20/188

Primary Creator: Manion, Michael (1952-2012)

Extent: 5.25 cubic feet

Arrangement: Content is arranged in five series: Series 1 contains published and unpublished music, Series 2 contains correspondence, Series 3 contains materials related to publication and research, Series 4 contains materials related to Michael's education, Series 5 contains sound recordings and audiovisual materials of Michael's music as well as the music of his contemporaries. All series are arranged alphabetically.

Date Acquired: 02/04/2013

Subjects: Compositions-Music, Computer Music, Electronic Music, Music Composition

Languages: English, German

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Consists of original and published music, new music ensemble performance directions and diagrams, correspondence, research notes, correspondence, audio recordings, photographs, concert programs, and posters documenting Michael Manion's career as a percussionist, composer of electroacoustical music, and scholar of the music and performance practices of Karlheinz Stockhausen between 1965 and 2008. Of particular interest is correspondence between Stockhausen and Manion related to the performance and notation practices for Stockhausen's works between 1984 and 1987 while Manion served as an assistant to Stockhausen.

Biographical Note

Michael Lawrence Manion (1952-2012), percussionist and American composer of electroacoustical music, earned his Bachelor of Music degree in composition and percussion performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1977 and Master of Music in composition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1983. He studied composition with Randolph Coleman, Dary John Mizelle, and Gary Lee Nelson at Oberlin and Salvatore Martirano and Ben Johnston at the University of Illinois. In addition, he studied with Robert Ashley at Mills Collection from 1977 to 1978, Mauricio Kagel at the Musikhochschule Koln from 1980 to 1981, and Jonathan Harvey at the Univeristy of Sussex from 1985 to 1988. Between 1984 and 1987 he served as an assistant to Karl Heinz Stockhausen for the publication of such works Kindheit, Nausenflugeltanz, Wochenkreis, and Madchenprozession. He remained an active composer and performer throughout his career in Europe and the United States until a stroke in 2008.

Subject/Index Terms

Compositions-Music
Computer Music
Electronic Music
Music Composition

Administrative Information

Repository: The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

Acquisition Source: Mrs. Floy Manion

Acquisition Method: Gift

Related Materials: Published scores of Stockhausen's music and books on Stockhausen's music that were not worked on by Michael Manion and not used for his research articles on Stockhausen were transfered to the Calvin College Library.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Original and published music, ca. 1972-2008],
[Series 2: Correspondence, ca. 1972-2004],
[Series 3: Research, Publications, and Performance Materials, ca. 1977-2008],
[Series 4: Education and Personal Papers, ca. 1974-2010],
[Series 5: Sound Recordings, Audiovisual Materials, and Computer Files, ca. 1974-2007],
[All]

Series 3: Research, Publications, and Performance Materials, ca. 1977-2008

Box 10

Folder 1: Compositional and musicological notes, undated: Includes handwritten notes regarding both Michael Manion's compositions and research. Folder 1 of 2.
Folder 2: Compositional and musicological notes, undated: Includes handwritten notes regarding both Michael Manion's composition and research. Folder 2 of 2.
Folder 3: Dienstags-Gruss, undated: Segment of unknown piece.; Author: Manion, Michael
Folder 4: From Tape Loops to MIDI: Karlheinz Stockhausen's Forty Years of Electronic Music, undated: Includes full final copy, fragments of copies, and drafts.; Author: Manion, Michael
Folder 5: Introduction to the Formula of Stockhausen's 'Donnerstag aus Licht', undated: Includes draft and final copy.; Author: Manion, Michael
Folder 6: Lukas Foss Echo I analysis, undated: Author: Manion, Michael
Folder 7: Material Things as Logical Constructions, undated: Author: Manion, Michael
Folder 8: Miscellaneous fragments of pieces, undated: Fragments of drafts and final copies of essays and papers.; Author: Manion, Michael
Folder 9: Stockhausen lecture transcription drafts, 1982: Author: Manion, Michael; Stockhausen, Karlheinz
Folder 10: Stockhausen lecture transcriptions, 1982: Author: Manion, Michael; Stockhausen, Karlheinz
Folder 11: Techniques of Formula Composition in Stockhausen's 'Donnerstag aus Licht', undated: Author: Manion, Michael
Folder 12: Two Views of Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 132, First Movement, undated: Author: Manion, Michael

Box 11

Folder 1: Le mois a caen, undated
Folder 2: Introduction to the Super-Formula of 'Donnerstag aus Licht', undated: Copy of published paper.; Author: Manion, Michael
Folder 3: Ear, 1977
Folder 4: Contemporary Music Review brochure, 1988
Folder 5: 'O Alter Duft': Stockhausen and the Return to Melody, 1976: Author: Toop, Richard
Folder 6: Eine Teezeremonie horen, 1977: Author: Stockhausen, Karlheinz
Folder 7: Sight Reader: A Computer Language Program for the Transcription of Piano Music, 1977: Author: Ross, Daniel; Fravel, Carl
Folder 8: Stockhausen's 'Tierkreis', 1978: Author: Stockhausen, Christel
Folder 9: Papers from IRCAM, 1978: Includes Perceptions of Timbral Analogies, Musical Acoustics, Low Dimensional Control of Musical Timbre. Collected at IRCAM in 1978.; Author: Ehresman, David; Wessel, David; Risset, Jean-Claude
Folder 10: Stockhausen interviews, 1980-1987
Folder 11: The Evolution of Macro- and Micro-Time Relations in Stockhausen's Recent Music, 1983: Author: Kohl, Jerome
Folder 12: Contact, 1984
Folder 13: Electronic Music for 'Kathinka's Chant as Lucifer's Requiem', 1984: Author: Stockhausen, Karlheinz
Folder 14: Gaudeamus Information, 1984
Folder 15: Stockhausen in Calcutta, 1984: Author: Schnebel, Dieter; Frisius, Rudolf; Stockhausen, Karlheinz
Folder 16: Michael im Himmel wie auf Erden, 1985: Author: Riethmuller, Albrecht
Folder 17: Zeitschrift fur Musikpadagogik, 1987
Folder 18: Kontakte, Stockhausen 60. Geburtstag, 1988-1990
Folder 19: Literatur und Kunst, 1990
Folder 20: Our Path to Hearing Webern, 1990: Author: Johnson, Donivan
Folder 21: Von Kommenden Zeiten, 1990: Author: Hennenberg, Fritz
Folder 22: Hymnen: Tractatus Musica Unita, 1991: Author: Hopkins, Nicholas F.
Folder 23: Tempo, 1991
Folder 24: Clavier Music, 1992: Author: Stockhausen, Karlheinz
Folder 25: Plan K-Ars Musica, 1992
Folder 26: Dansk Musik Tidsskrift, 1992-1993
Folder 27: Computer Music Journal, 1993
Folder 28: Y (Muziekcentrum De Ijsbreker), 1995

Box 12

Folder 1: The American Music Center, Directory and "Opportunities for Composers", 1991
Folder 2: Camilla Hoitenga profile, undated
Folder 3: DuMont Dokumente Musik: Karlheinz Stockhausen, 1984
Folder 4: Ex Machina '96 materials, 1996
Folder 5: GIMIK and Studio Feedback Koln materials, 1977-2005
Folder 6: International Computer Music Conference program, 1986
Folder 7: International Music Conference questionnaire, 1984
Folder 8: Michael Manion profile and list of compositions, undated
Folder 9: Nicholas Isherwood profile, undated
Folder 10: Prix Ars Electronica 94: A Duel Between Jurassic Park and France, 1994
Folder 11: Stichting Logos flyer, undated
Folder 12: The Stockhausen Project speech, ca. 1982
Folder 13: Stockhausen-Verlag materials, 1991-1993
Folder 14: Works list of Shigeru Kan-no, 2004

Box 13

Folder 1: Michael Manion concert programs, 2001-2008
Folder 2: Concert programs, 2000-2007: Includes programs from concerts of mentors and contemporaries.
Folder 3: Stockhausen concert programs, 1992-1996
Folder 4: Concert programs, 1991-1996: Includes programs from concerts of mentors and contemporaries.
Folder 5: Michael Manion concert programs, 1991-1996
Folder 6: Concert programs, 1982-1987: Includes programs from concerts of mentors and contemporaries.
Folder 7: Stockhausen concert programs, 1981-1987
Folder 8: Michael Manion concert programs, 1979-1984

Box 8

Folder 18: Michael Manion concert posters and copy of painting, 2000-2004
Folder 19: Michael manion concert posters, 1996
Folder 20: Michael Manion concert posters, 1980-1988
Folder 21: Michael Manion concert poster with Camilla Hoitenga, flute, undated
Folder 22: Stockhausen album sleeve, undated

Oversize Portfolio Box 1

Item 3: Trapezium poster, 1995: Removed for conservation August 8, 2014