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James Tenney

Writings and Interviews on Experimental Music

AvRobert Wannamaker,Lauren Pratt

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

654 kr

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This volume collects, for the first time, essential interviews and aesthetic writings from throughout James Tenney's five-decade artistic career.The eminent American-Canadian composer James Tenney (1934–2006) made groundbreaking contributions to sampling culture, digital sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, minimalism, spectral music, music in non-standard tuning systems, contemporary theories of form and harmony, and the consolidation of an American experimental-music tradition. This book documents both his own work and his involvements with influential figures in mid-century American music, film, art, and technology. The writings are accompanied by photographs, artworks, compositional sketches, archival documents, and previously unpublished scores. Appendices supply, for the first time, exhaustive lists of Tenney’s compositions and published writings, as well as performance chronologies that capture his influential contributions to the experimental arts in New York City and elsewhere in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-12-24
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9798765121368

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Robert Wannamaker is Associate Dean in the School of Music at the California Institute of the Arts, USA. He is the author of The Music of James Tenney, Vols. 1 & 2 (2021) and co-editor of James Tenney’s From Scratch: Writings in Music Theory (2015).Lauren Pratt is the executor of the estate of James Tenney, Canada. She is co-editor of James Tenney’s From Scratch: Writings in Music Theory (2015).Tashi Wada is a composer and independent scholar based in Los Angeles, USA. Wada studied composition with James Tenney at the California Institute of the Arts and has helped oversee Tenney's archive for the past decade.

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The volume is packed with scores, including many previously unpublished examples, with in-depth interviews ... It’s a highly readable and invaluable supplement to the previous books about him, bringing out glimmers of Tenney's personal life and how it was connected to his work as an artist.

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List of FiguresPreface1. Introduction2. Early Years (1934–1961)3. Electronic and Computer Music (1961–64)4. With Carolee Schneemann (1955–1968)5. Media, Performance, and Society (1963–69)6. Continuity and Harmony (1970–1985)7. Entropy and Agency (1986–2006)8. On Other Artists9. On Harmonic TheoryAppendix A List of WorksAppendix B List of Writings Appendix C Performances by Tenney (1954–79)Appendix D Performances of Tenney’s Music (1956–76)BibliographyIndex