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- Description
- 1 online resource (xxxi, 467 pages) : illustrations, music.
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- From scratch (Online)
- Alternative Title
- From scratch (Online)
- Writings in music theory
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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).
- LCCN
- 2015944784
- OCLC
- ssj0001583584
- Author
Tenney, James.
- Title
From scratch [electronic resource] : writings in music theory / James Tenney ; edited by Larry Polansky, Lauren Pratt, Robert Wannamaker, and Michael Winter.
- Imprint
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Chronological Term
1900-1999
- Added Author
Pratt, Lauren.
Wannamaker, Rob.
Winter, Michael, 1980-
Polansky, Larry, 1954-