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Parsing the works of the experimental music pioneer

Robert Wannamakers 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 Tenneys far-ranging oeuvre, Wannamaker provides in-depth, aurally grounded analyses of works linked to the artists revolutionary theories of musical form, timbre, and harmonic perception.

Volume 1, Contexts and Paradigms, chronologically surveys Tenneys creative development and output. Wannamaker begins each section with biographical, aesthetic, and technical context that illuminates a distinct period in Tenneys career. From there, he analyzes a small number of pieces that illuminate the concerns, characteristics, and techniques that emerged in Tenneys 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 Wannamaker supplements the text with musical examples, graphs, and diagrams while also drawing on unpublished material and newly available primary sources to flesh out each work and the ideas that shaped it.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.

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Parsing the works of the experimental music pioneer

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.

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The Music of James Tenney: Volume 1

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