The Music of James Tenney. Volume 1 / 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 (303 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]

Summary:

Robert Wannamaker's monumental 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 far-ranging 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. Wannamaker begins each section with biographical, aesthetic, and technical context that focuses on a distinct period in Tenney's career. From there, he analyzes a small number of pieces that illuminate the concerns, characteristics, and techniques that emerged in Tenney's music during that time. Wannamaker supplements the text with musical examples, graphs, and diagrams while also drawing on unpublished material and newly available primary sources to flesh out each work and the ideas that shaped it. A landmark in experimental music scholarship, The Music of James Tenney is a first-of-its-kind consideration of the music titan and his work Provided by publisher website.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Conventions and Abbreviations

1. Introduction

1.1. A Summary Chronology

1.2. Aesthetic and Methodological Bases: Music in Sound

2. Early Works and Influences (1934-59)

2.1. Stan Brakhage and Interim (1952)

2.2. Manhattan and Meeting Carolee Schneemann

2.3. Lionel Nowak, Carl Ruggles, and Charles Ives's Concord Sonata

2.4. Seeds (1956/1961)

3. Tape Music and "Meta/-Hodos" (1959-61)

3.1. Lejaren Hiller and Harry Partch

3.2. The University of Illinois Electronic Music Studio

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

3.4. "Meta/-Hodos" (1961)

4. Computer Music and Ergodicity (1961-64)

4.1. Edgard Varèse, D'Arcy Thompson, and "Growth to Form"

4.2. John Cage, Variety, and Ergodicity

4.3. Max Mathews and MUSIC

4.4. The Acoustic Correlates of Timbre

4.5. Algorithmic Composition

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

4.7. Phases (1963)

5. Performance and the Social (1964-68)

5.1. Downtown in the 1960s

5.2. Tone Roads and an American Experimental Tradition

5.3. Fluxus and Friends

5.4. Carolee Schneemann, Antonin Artaud, Wilhelm Reich

5.5. Choreogram (1964)

5.6. Fabric for Che (1967)

6. Process and Continuity (1969-71)

6.1. Gradual Processes

6.2. For Ann (rising) (1969)

6.3. Postal Pieces (1965-71)

7. Interlude: Harmonic Theory

7.1. The Meaning of Harmony

7.2. The Harmonic Series

7.3. Interval Tolerance and "The Language of Ratios"

7.4. A History of Consonance and Dissonance

7.5. Roughness and Beating (CDC-5)

7.6. Toneness and Harmonicity (CDC-2)

7.7. Harmonic Space (CDC-1)

7.8. Harmonic Measures and Their Applications

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

8.1. The Harmonic-Series Music

8.2. Clang (1972)

8.3. Spectral CANON for CONLON Nancarrow (1974).

8.4. Harmonium #1 (1976)

8.5. Three Indigenous Songs (1979)

9. Harmonic Spaces (1980-85) 193

9.1. The Harmonic-Space Music

9.2. Harmonium #3 (1980)

9.3. Bridge (1984)

9.4. Koan for String Quartet (1984)

10. Transition and Tradition (1986-94)

10.1. Critical Band (1988)

10.2. Flocking (1993)

11. Spectra and Diaphony (1994-2006)

11.1. Dissonant Counterpoint and Statistical Feedback

11.2. In a Large, … (1994-95)

11.3. Diaphonic Study (1997)

11.4. Arbor Vitae (2006)

12. A Tradition of Experimentation

Appendix A. Acoustics, Sensation, and Logarithmic Models

Appendix B. Spectrographic Analysis

Notes

References

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780252052569

9780252043673

0252043677

OCLC:

1290020280