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The Music of James Tenney

Author : Robert Wannamaker
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052560
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Music of James Tenney written by Robert Wannamaker and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parsing the works of the experimental music pioneer 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 illuminates 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 Wannamaker supplements the text with musical examples, graphs, and diagrams while also drawing on unpublished material and newly available primary sources to flesh out each work and the ideas that shaped it.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 experimental music titan and his work.

The Music of James Tenney

Author : Robert Wannamaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780252043673
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book The Music of James Tenney written by Robert Wannamaker and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parsing the works of the experimental music pioneer 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 illuminates 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 experimental music titan and his work.

From Scratch

Author : James Tenney
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252096673
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book From Scratch written by James Tenney and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Music of James Tenney

Author : Robert Wannamaker
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052579
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Music of James Tenney written by Robert Wannamaker and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work-by-work guide to the composer's groundbreaking music 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 offers close, aurally grounded analyses of works linked to the artist's revolutionary theories of musical form, timbre, and harmonic perception. 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). Wannamaker 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, he discusses the striking 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. A landmark in experimental music scholarship, The Music of James Tenney is a first-of-its-kind consideration of the experimental music titan and his work.

The Music of James Tenney

Author : Robert Wannamaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780252043680
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book The Music of James Tenney written by Robert Wannamaker and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work-by-work guide to the composer's groundbreaking music 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 offers close, aurally grounded analyses of works linked to the artist's revolutionary theories of musical form, timbre, and harmonic perception. 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). Wannamaker 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, he discusses the striking 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. A landmark in experimental music scholarship, The Music of James Tenney is a first-of-its-kind consideration of the experimental music titan and his work.

The Farthest Place

Author : Bernd Herzogenrath
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1555537642
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Farthest Place written by Bernd Herzogenrath and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first critical anthology of an important and singular contemporary composer

The Arithmetic of Listening

Author : Kyle Gann
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252051424
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Arithmetic of Listening written by Kyle Gann and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tuning is the secret lens through which the history of music falls into focus," says Kyle Gann. Yet in Western circles, no other musical issue is so ignored, so taken for granted, so shoved into the corners of musical discourse. A classroom essential and an invaluable reference, The Arithmetic of Listening offers beginners the grounding in music theory necessary to find their own way into microtonality and the places it may take them. Moving from ancient Greece to the present, Kyle Gann delves into the infinite tunings available to any musician who feels straitjacketed by obedience to standardized Western European tuning. He introduces the concept of the harmonic series and demonstrates its relationship to equal-tempered and well-tempered tuning. He also explores recent experimental tuning models that exploit smaller intervals between pitches to create new sounds and harmonies. Systematic and accessible, The Arithmetic of Listening provides a much-needed primer for the wide range of tuning systems that have informed Western music. Audio examples demonstrating the musical ideas in The Arithmetic of Listening can be found at: https://www.kylegann.com/Arithmetic.html

A History of Consonance and Dissonance

Author : James Tenney
Publisher : New York : Excelsior
ISBN 13 : 9780935016994
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book A History of Consonance and Dissonance written by James Tenney and published by New York : Excelsior. This book was released on 1988-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Music of James Tenney

Author : Peter Garland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book The Music of James Tenney written by Peter Garland and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rest Is Noise

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429932880
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Rest Is Noise written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Genesis Of A Music

Author : Harry Partch
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306801068
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Genesis Of A Music written by Harry Partch and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1979-08-22 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the few truly experimental composers in our cultural history, Harry Partch's life (1901–1974) and music embody most completely the quintessential American rootlessness, isolation, pre-civilized cult of experience, and dichotomy of practical invention and transcendental visions. Having lived mostly in the remote deserts of Arizona and New Mexico with no access to formal training, Partch naturally created theatrical ritualistic works incorporating Indian chants, Japanese kabuki and Noh, Polynesian microtones, Balinese gamelan, Greek tragedy, dance, mime, and sardonic commentary on Hollywood and commercial pop music of modern civilization. First published in 1949, Genesis of a Music is the manifesto of Partch's radical compositional practice and instruments (which owe nothing to the 300-year-old European tradition of Western music.) He contrasts Abstract and Corporeal music, proclaiming the latter as the vital, emotionally tactile form derived from the spoken word (like Greek, Chinese, Arabic, and Indian musics) and surveys the history of world music at length from this perspective. Parts II, III, and IV explain Partch's theories of scales, intonation, and instrument construction with copious acoustical and mathematical documentation. Anyone with a musically creative attitude, whether or not familiar with traditional music theory, will find this book revelatory.

The Music of Ben Johnston

Author : Heidi Von Gunden
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Music of Ben Johnston written by Heidi Von Gunden and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Johnston is an American composer internationally known for his work with extended just intonation. This is a critical-analytical study of his early compositions, his studies with Harry Partch and John Cage, and his experiments with just intonation, serialism, indeterminacy, jazz, and finally, extended just intonation. Pieces are analyzed and biographical material is included. The main emphasis of the text, however, is on examining Johnston's research about tuning and scalar theory as it relates to just intonation. For a long time Johnston worked in isolation; few people understood why someone would want to change the standard pitch system. But gradually, as his music began to be heard, especially his string quartets, performers and audiences experienced for themselves the kind of clarity and beauty that is possible with just intonation. This book is written for readers of varying musical backgrounds. Thos interested in studying and performing Johnston's music will find the book helpful in understanding his notational system and learning how to listen for just intervals. Many examples and figures document the musical analyses, which explain his compositional techniques. With a foreword by John Cage, a catalog and discography of Johnston's music, and a bibliography of the composer's writings.

Music 109

Author : Alvin Lucier
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819572985
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Music 109 written by Alvin Lucier and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composer and performer Alvin Lucier brings clarity to the world of experimental music as he takes the reader through more than a hundred groundbreaking musical works, including those of Robert Ashley, John Cage, Charles Ives, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, Christian Wolff, and La Monte Young. Lucier explains in detail how each piece is made, unlocking secrets of the composers’ style and technique. The book as a whole charts the progress of American experimental music from the 1950s to the present, covering such topics as indeterminacy, electronics, and minimalism, as well as radical innovations in music for the piano, string quartet, and opera. Clear, approachable and lively, Music 109 is Lucier’s indispensable guide to late 20th-century composition. No previous musical knowledge is required, and all readers are welcome.

The Techniques of Guitar Playing

Author : Seth F. Josel
Publisher : Bärenreiter-Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3761872399
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Techniques of Guitar Playing written by Seth F. Josel and published by Bärenreiter-Verlag. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Gitarrist Seth F. Josel und der Komponist Ming Tsao geben in ihrem gemeinsam geschriebenen Buch einen umfassenden Überblick über zeitgenössische Spieltechniken der klassischen Gitarre. Prägend war hierbei eine neue Generation von Gitarren-Solisten, die durch ihre außerordentlichen technischen und virtuosen Fähigkeiten einem neuen Verständnis von instrumentaler Aufführungspraxis den Weg geebnet haben. Detallierte Erklärungen über das, was technisch auf dem Instrument möglich ist, werden präsentiert und im Hinblick auf die traditionelle Gitarrentechnik in einen historischen Zusammenhang gestellt. Für Komponisten interessant sind die ausführlichen Analysen von zeitgenössischer Gitarrenliteratur, die viele Beispiele aus Kammer- und Ensemblemusik mit einbeziehen. Vier Hauptkapitel beschreiben - Techniken der rechten und der linken Hand - Besondere Harmonien und perkussive Techniken - Die Hauptinstrumente der Gitarrenfamilie und ihre Möglichkeiten - Notationsmöglichkeiten für zeitgenössische Gitarrenliteratur Detaillierte Grafiken zu Multiphonics-, Bitones- und Perkussions-Techniken sowie Audio-Tracks, auf die aus dem Buch heraus verlinkt wird, ergänzen die im Buch beschriebenen Beispiele.

Being Time

Author : Richard Glover
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628927011
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Being Time written by Richard Glover and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Time invites a deep consideration of the personal experience of temporality in music, focusing on the perceptual role of the listener. Through individual case studies, this book centers on musical works that deal with time in radical ways. These include pieces by Morton Feldman, James Saunders, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Ryoji Ikeda, Toshiya Tsunoda, Laurie Spiegel and André O. Möller. Multiple perspectives are explored through a series of encounters, initially between an individual and a work, and subsequently with each author's varying experiences of temporality. The authors compare their responses to features such as repetition, speed, duration and scale from a perceptual standpoint, drawing in reflections on aspects such as musical memory and anticipation. The observations made in this book are accessible and relevant to readers who are interested in exploring issues of temporality from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives.

The Contemporary Violin

Author : Patricia Strange
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461664101
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Violin written by Patricia Strange and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2003-01-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a composer and a musician, The Contemporary Violin offers a unique menu of avant-garde musical possibilities that both performers and composers will enjoy exploring. Allen and Patricia Strange's comprehensive study critically examines extended performance techniques found in the violin literature of the latter half of the twentieth century. Drawing from both published and private manuscripts, the authors present extended performance options for the acoustic, modified, electric, and MIDI violin, with signal processing and computer-related techniques, and include more than 400 notated examples. The authors begin with bowing techniques and proceed systematically through other aspects of string playing, including MIDI technologies. Their correspondence and research with many performers and composers, the book's extensive score and text bibliography, and the discography of more than 130 recordings make The Contemporary Violin a valuable contemporary music reference and guide. An additional benefit is its listing of Internet resources that will keep the reader up to date with recent developments in contemporary performance and composition. First published by UC Press, 2001.

Artistic Experimentation in Music

Author : Darla Crispin
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462700133
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Artistic Experimentation in Music written by Darla Crispin and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for anyone interested in artistic research applied to music This book is the first anthology of writings about the emerging subject of artistic experimentation in music. This subject, as part of the cross-disciplinary field of artistic research, cuts across boundaries of the conventional categories of performance practice, music analysis, aesthetics, and music pedagogy. The texts, most of them specially written for this volume, have a common genesis in the explorations of the Orpheus Research Centre in Music (ORCiM) in Ghent, Belgium. The book critically examines experimentation in music of different historical eras. It is essential reading for performers, composers, teachers, and others wanting to inform themselves of the issues and the current debates in the new field of artistic research as applied to music. The publication is accompanied by a CD of music discussed in the text, and by an online resource of video illustrations of specific issues. Contributors Paulo de Assis (ORCiM), Richard Barrett (Institute of Sonology, The Hague), Tom Beghin (McGill University), William Brooks (University of York, ORCiM), Nicholas G. Brown (University of East Anglia), Marcel Cobussen (University of Leiden), Kathleen Coessens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, ORCiM); Paul Craenen (Director Musica, Impulse Centre for Music), Darla Crispin (Norwegian Academy of Music), Stephen Emmerson (Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, Brisbane), Henrik Frisk (Malmö Academy of Music), Bob Gilmore (ORCiM), Valentin Gloor (ORCiM), Yolande Harris (Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media – DXARTS), University of Washington, Seattle), Mieko Kanno (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Andrew Lawrence-King (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen, University of Western Australia), Catherine Laws (University of York, ORCiM), Stefan Östersjö (ORCiM), Juan Parra (ORCiM), Larry Polansky (University of California, Santa Cruz), Stephen Preston, Godfried-Willem Raes (Logos Foundation, Ghent), Hans Roels (ORCiM), Michael Schwab (ORCiM, Royal College of Art, London, Zurich University of the Arts), Anna Scott (ORCiM), Steve Tromans (Middlesex University), Luk Vaes (ORCiM), Bart Vanhecke (KU Leuven, ORCiM)