Essential music-theoretical writings from a giant of avant-garde composing
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".
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, the founder and director of
the wulf. in Los Angeles, and helped complete Tenney's final
musical work, Arbor Vitae.
"This collection of essays propels Tenney studies into the next critical stage, making publicly accessible the writings of one of the most compelling musical thinkers in the American contemporary music scene. In their well-selected diversity, these writings are a marvelous expression of the breadth of Tenney's aesthetic and theoretical thinking; surely this book will serve as an essential cornerstone to scholars for decades to come." --David W. Patterson, contributing editor of John Cage: Music, Philosophy, and Intention, 1933--1950
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