The Music of James Tenney. Volume 2 / Robert Wannamaker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wannamaker, Rob, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Tenney, James--Criticism and interpretation.

Tenney, James.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Robert Wannamaker's two-volume study explores the influential music and ideas of American composer, theorist, writer, performer, and educator James Tenney. Delving into the whole of Tenney's oeuvre, Wannamaker provides in-depth, aurally grounded analyses of works linked to the artist's revolutionary theories of musical form, timbre, and harmonic perception. Volume 1, Contexts and Paradigms, chronologically surveys Tenney's creative development and output. Each section begins with biographical, aesthetic, and technical context that illuminates a distinct period in Tenney's career. Wannamaker then analyzes a small number of pieces that illuminate the concerns, characteristics, and techniques that emerged in Tenney's music during that time. He supplements the text with musical examples, graphs, and diagrams while also drawing on unpublished material and newly available primary sources to flesh out each work and the ideas that shaped it. Written as a reference work, Volume 2, A Handbook to the Pieces, presents detailed entries on Tenney's significant post-1959 experimental works (excepting pieces covered in Volume 1). It includes technical information, an analysis of intentions and goals, graphs and musical examples, historical and biographical context, and thoughts from Tenney and others on specific works. Throughout, Wannamaker discusses the compositional ideas found in Tenney's music and, where appropriate, traces an idea's appearance from one piece to the next to reveal the evolution of the composer's art and thought"--

Contents:

Intro

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface

1. 1952-59 (Early Works)

1.1. Monody (1959)

2. 1959-61 (Tape Music)

2.1. Improvisations for Medea (1960)

2.2. Collage #1 ("Blue Suede") (1961)

3. 1961-64 (Computer Music)

3.1. Analog #1 (Noise Study) (1961)

3.2. Entrance/Exit Music (1962)

3.3. Five Stochastic Studies (1962)

3.4. Stochastic String Quartet (1963) and Stochastic Quartet (1963)

3.5. Dialogue (1963)

3.6. Radio Piece (1963)

3.7. Ergodos I (1963)

3.8. Phases (1963)

3.9. Music for Player Piano (1964)

3.10. Ergodos II (1964)

3.11. String Complement (1964) and Instrumental Responses (1964)

4. 1964-68 (Performance and the Social)

4.1. Choreogram (1964)

4.2. Chamber Music (1964)

4.3. Maximusic (1965)

4.4. Metabolic Music (1965)

4.5. Three Theater Pieces (1965)

4.6. Collage #2 ("Viet Flakes") (1966)

4.7. A House of Dust (1967) and Letters to Gertrude Stein (1968)

4.8. Fabric for Che (1967)

4.9. Swell Piece (1967)

5. 1969-73 (Process and Continuity)

5.1. For Ann (rising) (1969)

5.2. Quiet Fan for Erik Satie (1970/1971)

5.3. Hey When I Sing These 4 Songs Hey Look What Happens (1971)

5.4. Postal Pieces (1965-71)

5.5. For 12 Strings (rising) (1971)

5.6. In the … Mode (1971, 1973)

6. 1972-79 (Canons and the Harmonic Series)

6.1. Clang (1972)

6.2. Quintext: Five Textures (1972)

6.3. Canon (1973)

6.4. The Chorales Series (1973-75)

6.5. Spectral CANON for CONLON Nancarrow (1974)

6.6. Orchestral Study: The "Creation Field" (1974)

6.7. Three Harmonic Studies (1974)

6.8. Three Pieces for Mechanical Drum (1974-75)

6.9. Three Pieces for Drum Quartet (1974-75)

6.10. Symphony (1975)

6.11. Harmoniums #1, #4, and #5 (1976-78)

6.12. Saxony (1978)

6.13. Three Indigenous Songs (1979).

7. 1980-85 (Harmonic Spaces)

7.1. Harmoniums #2, #3, #6, and #7 (1980-2000)

7.2. Chromatic Canon (1980/1983)

7.3. Band (1980/1983)

7.4. Septet (1981)

7.5. Glissade (1982)

7.6. Two Koans and a Canon (1982)

7.7. Voice(s) (1982/1984)

7.8. deus ex machina (1982)

7.9. Bridge (1984)

7.10. Koan for String Quartet (1984)

7.11. Changes: 64 Studies for 6 Harps (1985)

7.12. Water on the mountain … Fire in heaven (1985)

8. 1986-94 (Transition and Tradition)

8.1. The Road to Ubud (1986)

8.2. Rune (1988)

8.3. Critical Band (1988)

8.4. Tableaux Vivants (1990)

8.5. Three New Seeds (1991)

8.6. Pika-Don (1991)

8.7. "Ain't I a Woman?" (1992)

8.8. Flocking (1993)

8.9. Cognate Canons (1993)

8.10. Forms 1-4 (1993)

8.11. Ergodos III (1994)

9. 1994-2006 (Spectra and Diaphony)

9.1. In a Large, … (1994-95)

9.2. Three Pages in the Shape of a Pear (1995)

9.3. The Spectrum Series (1995, 2001)

9.4. Diapason (1996)

9.5. 'Scend for Scelsi (1996)

9.6. Diaphonic Study (1997)

9.7. Diaphonic Toccata (1997)

9.8. Diaphonic Trio (1997)

9.9. Song 'n' Dance for Harry Partch (1999)

9.10. Seegersong #1 and Seegersong #2 (1999)

9.11. Last Spring in Toronto (2000)

9.12. Prelude and Toccata (2001)

9.13. (Fontana) Mix for Six (Strings) (2001)

9.14. To Weave (a meditation) (2003)

9.15. Essay (after a sonata) (2004)

9.16. Just Another Bagatelle (2004)

9.17. For Piano and … (2005)

9.18. Panacousticon (2005)

9.19. Arbor Vitae (2006)

10. Music in Popular Styles

10.1. Three Rags for Pianoforte (1969)

10.2. "Listen … !" (1981/1984)

10.3. Blues Canon (from "Listen … !") (1981)

10.4. Nathan's Song (1983)

10.5. Sneezles (an encore) (1985/1995/2000)

11. Arrangements

11.1. Maple Leaf Rag

11.2. Stoptime Rag.

11.3. General William Booth Enters into Heaven

11.4. Blues for Annie

11.5. Beatles Song Arrangements

11.6. Five Studies for Player Piano

Notes

References

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780252043680

0252043685

OCLC:

1288212253