From Scratch
Writings in Music Theory
1st Edition
Published on 7. October 2015
472 pages
978-0-252-09667-9 (ISBN)
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One of the twentieth century's most important musical thinkers, James Tenney did pioneering work in multiple fields, including computer music, tuning theory, and algorithmic and computer-assisted composition. From Scratch is a collection of Tenney's hard-to-find writings arranged, edited, and revised by the self-described "composer/theorist." Selections focus on his fundamental concerns--"what the ear hears"--and include thoughts and ideas on perception and form, tuning systems and especially just intonation, information theory, theories of harmonic space, and stochastic (chance) procedures of composition.
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James Tenney was a prolific and important experimental composer, theorist, writer and performer. His books include Meta + Hodos: A Phenomenology of Twentieth-Century Musical Materials and an Approach to the Study of Form and A History of "Consonance" and "Dissonance" . He died in 2006. Larry Polansky is Professor of Music at the University of California Santa Cruz, Emeritus Strauss Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, and founding editor of the Leonardo Music Journal . Lauren Pratt is the associate producer of music at Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater and executor of the Tenney estate. Robert Wannamaker is Associate Dean at the California Institute of the Arts, where he teaches music composition, theory, history, and literature. Michael Winter is a composer and founder and director of the wulf. in Los Angeles and helped complete Tenney's final musical work, Arbor Vitae .
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the Edition
- Introduction by Larry Polansky
- 1.On the Development of the Structural Potentialities of Rhythm, Dynamics, and Timbre in the Early N
- 2. Meta / Hodos (1961)
- 3. Computer Music Experiences, 1961-1964 (1964)
- 4. On the Physical Correlates of Timbre (1965)
- 5. Excerpts from "An Experimental Investigation of Timbre-the Violin" (1966)
- 6. Form in Twentieth-Century Music (1969-70)
- 7. META Meta / Hodos (1975)
- 8. The Chronological Development of Carl Ruggles's Melodic Style (1977)
- 9 Hierarchical Temporal Gestalt Perception in Music A Metric Space Model (with Larry Polansky) (1978
- 10. Introduction to "Contributions toward a Quantitative Theory of Harmony" (1979)
- 11. The Structure of Harmonic Series Aggregates (1979)
- 12. John Cage and the Theory of Harmony (1983)
- 13. Reflections after Bridge (1984)
- 14. Review of Music as Heard by Thomas Clifton (1985)
- 15. About Changes: Sixty-Four Studies for Six Harps (1987)
- 16. Darmstadt Lecture (1990)
- 17. The Several Dimensions of Pitch (1993/2003)
- 18. On "Crystal Growth" in Harmonic Space (1993/2003)
- 19. About Diapason (1996)
- Appendix 1. Pre-Meta / Hodos (1959)
- Appendix 2. On Musical Parameters (ca. 1960-61)
- Appendix 3. Excerpt from A History of 'Consonance' and 'Dissonance' (1988)
- Publication History
- Notes
- Index
