James Tenney (Composer)
Born: 10th August 1934, Silver City, New Mexico, U.S.A
Died: 24th August 2006, Valencia, Santa Clarita, California, United States
Nationality: American
James Tenney was an American composer and music theorist. He made significant early musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, process music, spectral music, microtonal music, and tuning systems including extended just intonation. His theoretical writings variously concern musical form, texture, timbre, consonance and dissonance, and harmonic perception.
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- 3 Pages in the Shape of a Pear (2)
- 64 Studies for 6 Harps (1)
- A Rose is a Rose is a Round (1)
- Analog #1 (Noise Study) (1)
- August Harp (1)
- Beast (3)
- Blues for Annie (1)
- Cellogram (1)
- Chorale (1)
- Cognate Canons (1)
- Collage #1 ("Blue Suede") (1)
- Deus Ex Machina (1)
- Dialogue (1)
- Diaphonic Toccata (1)
- Diaphonic Trio (1)
- Ergodos I Monody (1)
- Ergodos II Seegersong #1 (4)
- Ergodos III (1)
- Essay (after a sonata) for inside-piano (1)
- Fabric for Ché (1)
- For 12 Strings (rising) (1)
- For Ann (rising) (1)
- For Percussion Perhaps (2)
- Form 1-4 (1)
- Glissade (1)
- Harmonium #1 (1)
- Harmonium #3 (1)
- Harmonium #5 (1)
- Having Never Written a Note for Percussion (1)
- Koan (3)
- Maximusic (4)
- Music for Player Piano (2)
- Night (1)
- Percussion Response (with Ergodos I) (1)
- Phases (for Edgard Varèse) (1)
- Pika-Don: Alamogordo, Hiroshima (1)
- Poem (1)
- Rune (1)
- Saxony (3)
- Seegersong #2 (1)
- Seegersong #2 Instrumental Responses (with Ergodos I) (1)
- Spectral Canon for Conlon Nancarrow (2)
- Spectrum Pieces (1)
- String Complement (with Ergodos II) (1)
- Swell Piece (1)
- Swell Piece 2 (1)
- Swell Piece 3 (1)
- Three Pieces for Drum Quartet: Wake for Charles Ives, Hocket for Henry Cowell, Crystal Canon for Edgar Varèse (1)
- Two Koans and a Canon (1)
- Variations in A (on a theme by my father) (1)
- Voice(s) (1)