Research Catalog

Title

From scratch : writings in music theory / James Tenney ; edited by Larry Polansky, Lauren Pratt, Robert Wannamaker, and Michael Winter.

Author

Tenney, James

Publication

• Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
• ©2015

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Additional Authors

• Pratt, Lauren
• Wannamaker, Rob
• Winter, Michael, 1980-
• Polansky, Larry, 1954-

Description

xxxi, 467 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Alternative Title

Writings in music theory

Subjects

• Music theory
• Music theorists
• Music theory > History > 20th century
• Composers

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Larry Polansky -- On the development of the structural potentialities of rhythm, dynamics, and timbre in the early nontonal music of Arnold Schoenberg (1959) -- Meta [does not equal] Hodos (1961) -- Computer music experiences, 1961-1964 (1964) -- On the physical correlates of timbre (1965) -- Excerpts from "An experimental investigation of timbre---the violin" (1966) -- Form in twentieth-century music (1969-70) -- META Meta [does not equal] Hodos (1975) -- The chronological development of Carl Ruggles's melodic style (1977) -- Hierarchical temporal gestalt perception in music: a metric space model (with Larry Polansky) (1978-80) -- Introduction to "Contributions toward a quantitative theory of harmony" (1979) -- The structure of harmonic series aggregates (1979) -- John Cage and the theory of harmony (1983) -- Reflections after Bridge (1984) -- Review of Music as heard by Thomas Clifton (1985) -- About Changes: sixty-four studies for six harps (1987) -- Darmstadt lecture (1990) -- The several dimensions of pitch (1993/2003) -- On "crystal growth" in harmonic space (1993/2003) -- About Dispason (1996) -- Appendix 1. Pre-Meta [does not equal] Hodos (1959) -- Appendix 2. On musical parameters (ca. 1960-1961) -- Appendix 3. Excerpt from A history of 'consonance' and 'dissonance' (1988).

Call Number

JME 15-553

ISBN

• 9780252038723
• 025203872X

OCLC

904541430

Author

Tenney, James, author.

Title

From scratch : writings in music theory / James Tenney ; edited by Larry Polansky, Lauren Pratt, Robert Wannamaker, and Michael Winter.

Publisher

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Pratt, Lauren, editor.

Wannamaker, Rob, editor.

Winter, Michael, 1980- editor.

Polansky, Larry, 1954- editor.

Research Call Number

JME 15-553