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	James Tenney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Tenney (August 10, 1934 in Silver City, NM) is an American composer and influential music theorist.
		He studied piano with Eduard Steuermann and composition with Chou Wen-chung, Lionel Nowak, Paul Boepple, Henry Brant, Carl Ruggles, Kenneth Gaburo, Lejaren Hiller, John Cage, Harry Partch, and Edgard Varèse.
		James Tenney in conversation with Frank J. Oteri
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Tenney (289 words)

	Tenney, James
		Tenney has also contributed valuable theoretical work in the areas of musical form, acoustics, and perception.
		Using composition as a means to investigate the sound world around us, Tenney's work reflects a continuing curiosity concerning the properties of sound and how it is perceived by the listener.
		Tenney is the pianist on, and wrote the liner notes for, 31 Songs by Charles Ives (1966, Folk FM-3344-45).
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0003383 (879 words)

	HatHutRecords
		It is not far-fetched to assume that the late and hesitant reception of Tenney‘s music in Europe is related to this diversity: James Tenney's music is not as easily reduced to a sonic stereotype as Morton Feldman's or Giacinto Scelsi's.
		Tenney has coined this term in the context of the discussion about John Cage's music, but it is evident that what "ergodicity" stands for also applies to Tenney's concept of musical form.
		Tenney, an outstanding pianist, who studied with Eduard Steuermann, but was also assistant to the "just intonation"-prophet Harry Partch, Tenney, who studied with Varèse and with Ruggles, James Tenney has been like only a few others (David Tudor comes to mind) a mediator between European and American concepts of musical modernism.
	www.hathut.com /tenney-content.html (1254 words)

	Artifact
		Tenney was not the first composer to work with computer-assisted composition, although is certainly one of the earliest and most important figures in this area.
		Tenney was one of the first composers to actively champion the player-piano music of Conlon Nancarrow, and indeed, wrote the first extended critical study of Nancarrow s work.
		Many people associate Tenney most closely with this work, for it seems to embody the most essential aspects of his aesthetic: clear, predictable formal procedures; a lack of any kind of narrative structure; a deep interest in acoustical phenomena and their musical and formal manifestations; a sense of humor.
	www.artifact.com /release.php?id=1007 (2072 words)

	For Ann (rising) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For Ann (rising) is a piece of electronic music created by James Tenney in 1969.
		The piece is based upon the Shepard scale concept, named after Tenney's colleague at Bell Labs psychologist Roger N. Shepard, though the technique which the piece uses is more properly described as a continuous Risset scale or Shepard-Risset glissando.
		Tenney has suggested the piece be "regenerated" with the distance between successive voices, the minor sixth (1.6 in just intonation, 1.587 in equal temperament), being tuned to golden ratio phi (1.618).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/For_Ann_(rising) (310 words)

	Avantgarde Music. James Tenney: biography, discography, reviews, links
		James Tenney (1934), who had studied electronic music at the University of Illinois (1959-61), was probably the first composer to craft an aesthetic for computer music.
		Tenney realized that electronic and digital music almost forced the composer to accept noise as "music" and to abandon the idea of absolute control over a composition.
		Tenney's mature phase began with the tape work Fabric for Che (1967), a virtually endless piece of electronic music that exudes anger and frustation, and peaked with For Ann (1969), a minimalist and mathematical piece of superimposed glissandi.
	www.scaruffi.com /avant/tenney.html (613 words)

	My Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		James Tenney was born on Dec 21 1765 in Shelburne, Massachusetts.
		James Tenney was born on Jan 6 1786 in Charlemont, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts.
		Tenney was born in 1867 in Upshur Co., WV.
	www.castoconnections.com /gedcom/d130.htm (956 words)

	CDeMUSIC
		Four works by James Tenney, each paired with music by an American composer to whom the Tenney composition is dedicated.
		The compositions include James Tenney's 'Form 1' (1993) and Edgard Varese's 'Octandre' (1923), James Tenney's 'Form 2' (1993) and John Cage's 'Seven' (1988), James Tenney's 'Form 3' (1993) and Stefan Wolpe's 'Piece' (1971), and James Tenney's 'Form 4' (1994) and 'Morton Feldman's 'Numbers' (1964).
		The pieces were written on postcards, which Tenney called 'Scorecards', each card containing a minimally-stated work focusing on some aspect of acoustics, form, or gesture to be performed by instrumentalists.
	www.cdemusic.org /store/cde_search.cfm?keywords=jtenneycds (443 words)

	Eye - Cage match - 10.24.02
		In honour of Cage's 90th birthday, composer and pianist James Tenney will be tickling the ivories and tampering with the strings.
		Tenney, now teaching at the California Institute of the Arts, explains that when he plays many of the prepared keys, "you hear at least two different pitches simultaneously.
		Tenney himself was at the forefront of developments in electronic and computer music at Bell Labs in the '60s; one of his pieces, the hilarious "Collage #1" (1961), chews up, warps and spits out Elvis' version of "Blue Suede Shoes." It takes a few more chances than, say, Presley's latest remixed No. 1 smash.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_10.24.02/music/jamestenney.html (606 words)

	TIM PERKIS: Tenney Review
		This newly released CD is a collection of early computer works by James Tenney from the 1960's.
		Tenney was a young composer at the time, but he already had developed a body of works influenced by Webern and Varèse, and a theoretical paper, Meta-Hodos, in which he had drawn on the field of gestalt psychology for a new and abstract way to talk about music composition and perception.
		The strangeness and power of these works, as with the Phases (for Edgard Varèse) piece, are born of a characteristic blend of opposites in Tenney: a sense of all hell breaking loose in some strangely and beautifully ordered way.
	www.perkis.com /wpc/w_tenney.html (641 words)

	Browse by Artist: TENNEY, JAMES
		Tenney's pieces from 1961-64 constitute the first significant and developed body of computer-composed and synthesized music by en American composer.
		Tenney was a very young composer when he wrote these pieces.
		Tenney has also been important as a teacher, performer, and scholar of other radical American composers.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/tenney.james.html (588 words)

	James Tenney, 2004 President's Quality Service Award Winner
		Tenney has many other responsibilities with ISS for which he draws similar praise.
		When the orientation peer advisors group he coordinated suggested they might be a valuable resource for international students not just at the start of their UC careers, Tenney helped them evolve into "Cultural Connection," a student organization that organizes social opportunities for UC’s international students.
		Tenney was instrumental in helping the group draft a constitution and bylaws, and he attends each of their weekly meetings.
	www.uc.edu /news/NR.asp?id=2062 (444 words)

	LEA - Volume 8, No. 11 - Feature Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		While at Bell Labs Tenney worked closely with Max Mathews, John Pierce and others, as one of the first composers to use computer synthesized sound (most of his computer compositions from the time are included on the compact disc, James Tenney: Selected Works, 1961-1969, available from Frog Peak Music, or CDeMUSIC).
		During this time, Tenney was married to the artist Carolee Schneemann, was close friends with the experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage, was heavily influenced by the music and thought of John Cage, and could be found among Fluxus and other experimental artists.
		Tenney went beyond that and said that the computer was differentiated by its capacity to not only generate all sounds but to constitute a continuum between and among any and all musical and sonic entities, and to do so from the inside out, from the most minute elemental level to the largest organizational form.
	mitpress2.mit.edu /e-journals/LEA/ARTICLES/TENNEY/kahn.html (14390 words)

	Art of the States: Having Never Written a Note for Percussion
		Tenney is particularly interested in the properties of sound and its perception by listeners.
		Tenney served as pianist and conductor for the group until 1970.
		Tenney is the author of numerous articles on musical acoustics, computer music, musical form, and perception, as well as two books: META + HODOS: A Phenomenology of 20th-Century Musical Materials and an Approach to the Study of Form (1961; Frog Peak, 1988) and A History of 'Consonance' and 'Dissonance' (Excelsior, 1988).
	www.artofthestates.org /cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=28 (985 words)

	Pioneer. Composer. Psychoacoustician? - New York Times
		JAMES TENNEY is the Zelig of American composition.
		Tenney is known for aren't supposed to be able to be done in the same room, let alone by the same person.
		Tenney should graduate from an institution that was, at the time, a women's college.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/05/08/arts/music/08midg.html?ex=1273204800&en=7f4f8a83c66c1dfa&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (793 words)

	School of Music Faculty - JAMES TENNEY, Composition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		James Tenney was born in 1934 in Silver City, New Mexico, and grew up in Arizona and Colorado, where he received his early training as a pianist and composer.
		A performer as well as a composer and theorist, Tenney was co-founder and conductor of the Tone Roads Chamber Ensemble in New York City (1963-70).
		He was a pioneer in the field of electronic and computer music, working with Max Mathews and others at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in the early 1960s to develop programs for computer sound-generation and composition.
	shoko.calarts.edu /faculty/jtenney.html (414 words)

	Faculty of Fine Arts: James Tenney
		James Tenney, Distinguished Research Professor, retired from York University in 2000 after 24 years in the Department of Music.
		He was a pioneer in the field of electronic and computer music, working at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in the early 1960s to develop programs for computer sound-generation and composition.
		During his tenure at York, Professor Tenney received numerous honours, including a major retrospective in the New Music America festival, two Festschrift publications and the first Jean A. Chalmers Award for Music Composition from the Ontario Arts Council.
	www.yorku.ca /finearts/faculty/profs/tenney.htm (221 words)

	Stan Brakhage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brakhage was born as Robert Sanders in an orphanage in Kansas City, Missouri.
		He was influenced by the writings of Sergei Eisenstein and the films of Jean Cocteau as well as the Italian neorealism movement.
		His first film, Interim (1952), was in the neo-realist style and had music by James Tenney.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stan_Brakhage (857 words)

	Faculty of Fine Arts: Music News: Composer James Tenney Leaves York U On High Note
		Tenney is world-renowned as a composer of avant-garde music.
		James Tenney and his wife, Lauren Pratt will be honoured with a special tribute and retrospective concert on June 4 at Toronto's Music Gallery, co-sponsored by Musicworks Magazine and CBC Radio's Two New Hours.
		Tenney will conduct some of Toronto's leading musicians in performances of his own compositions.
	www.yorku.ca /finearts/news/tenney.htm (362 words)

	Tenny Concert
		James Tenney, composer-in-residence, has spent the past week with students in conducting and composition workshops.
		Seven of Tenney's compositions will be performed by the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble and Oberlin Wind Ensemble, conducted by Timothy Weiss, associate professor of wind conducting, and guest conducted by James Tenney and Mitch Arnold, visiting assistant professor of conducting.
		"Tenney was a pioneer in computer music, and his works from the early 1960s are widely regarded as classics of the medium.
	www.oberlin.edu /news-info/98oct/tenny_concert.html (304 words)

	THE TENNEY FAMILY
		There are two TENNEY lines in my family tree - both descending from Thomas TENNEY - one through his eldest son John and the other through his son Daniel with second wife.
		Albert TENNEY was first married to Sarah FIFIELD and they had a daughter, Louisa Amelia born 29 April 1843.
		James TENNEY - born 15 Aug 1650 in Rowley, Mass.
	www.geocities.com /carolthacker.geo/tenney1.html (937 words)

	Classical Net Review - Tenney - Selected Works, 1961-1969
		Tenney accomplishes this auditory illusion by layering more than a dozen out of phase glissandos one of top of the other.
		Tenney's aggressive editing preserves the grungy feel of rock and roll even as it affectionately perverts the work of one of its saints.
		Tenney defined the variables and algorithms, and, one might say, left the music to compose itself.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/n/nwo80570a.html (544 words)

	F0428 - James Tenney fonds
		James Tenney (1934-), composer and educator, was born and educated in the United States, receiving a M Mus from the University of Illinois in 1961.
		Tenney is a modern composer with over fifty works completed including 'Quintext: five textures for string quartet and bass,' 'Sonata for ten wind instruments,' and 'Clang for orchestra'.
		In addition, there is a photocopy of 'Meta-hodos: a phenomenology of 20th century musical materials and an approach to the study of form, a typescript of 'Computer music experiences, 1961-1964', and a audio cassette of Musicworks - The Music of James Tenney.
	archivesfa.library.yorku.ca /fonds/ON00370-f0000428.htm (228 words)

	NewMusicBox
		James Tenney taught at CalArts at the institution's very beginnings in the 1970s and recently returned there.
		In between, he taught at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and York University in Toronto, where he was based for 24 years.
		Tenney's ideas about music have left an indelible print on his numerous students over the years, among whom are John Luther Adams, Allison Cameron, John Gzowski, and Larry Polansky.
	www.newmusicbox.org /article.nmbx?id=4246 (1247 words)

	Perspectives of New Music: Changing the metaphor: ratio models of musical pitch in the work of Harry Partch, Ben ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The works of Harry Partch, Ben Johnston, and James Tenney were explored to detect cycles of observation, reflection and reformulation.
		Partch, Johnston and Tenney's compositions were observed to have more points of difference than of contact.
		Significant differences in style, aesthetic and technique were noticed, even if the music had identical pitch vocabularies and differed from most contemporary works.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:18498875&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (236 words)

	NewMusicbox
		A Series of Conversations between James Tenney and Frank J. Oteri recorded at the former location of the Issue Project Room and Bryant Park,
		The first piece of music by James Tenney I ever heard was the Chromatic Canon for two pianos, a work that manages to fuse minimalism and serialism.
		I had the honor of talking with Tenney in a pre-concert talk at the Project Room as well as a mid-concert talk at the Altria.
	www.newmusicbox.org /printerfriendly.nmbx?id=4247 (335 words)

	James Tenney - The Solo Works for Percussion (Matthias Kaul)
		James Tenney (1934) is not a regular, down-home, traditional composer of percussion works, but then again, Matthias Kaul is not an ordinary percussionist either, which is especially evident on another issue from
		Tenney also says about the piece that it is possible (allowed and even encouraged) to cut it up in several pieces of about the same duration and play them all simultaneously.
		Gratitude is extended to Matthias Kaul for his visionary interpretations of James Tenney’s scores – and an extra bow is directed towards Rüdiger Orth and his tape-delay in the concluding piece!
	home.swipnet.se /sonoloco7/Kaul/tenney.html (1136 words)

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