James Tenney
American composer and music theorist
James Tenney (August 10, 1934 – August 24, 2006) was an American composer, music theorist, and pianist. He made significant early musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, process music, spectral music, and microtonal tuning systems including extended just intonation. His theoretical writings variously concern musical form, texture, timbre, consonance and dissonance, and harmonic perception.
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Works
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- A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose
- A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose: I.
- A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose: II.
- A Rose Is a Rose Is a Round
- Analog #1 "Noise Study"
- August Harp
- Beast
- Bridge
- Cellogram
- Chorales
- Chromatic Canon
- Clang
- Collage #1 (“Blue Suede”)
- Critical Band
- Deus ex machina
- Dialogue
- Diapason
- Ergodos I
- Ergodos II
- Ergodos III
- Fabric for Ché
- Flocking
- For Ann (Rising)
- For Percussion Perhaps, or …
- Forms
- Forms: Form 1
- Forms: Form 2
- Forms: Form 3
- Forms: Form 4
- Harmonium #2
- Having Never Written a Note for Percussion
- Instrumental Responses
- Koan
- Maximusic
- Monody
- Music for Player Piano
- Percussion Response
- Phases (For Edgard Varèse)
- Pika‐Don
- Pika‐Don: Part I. Alamogordo
- Pika‐Don: Part II. Hiroshima
- Poem
- Rune
- Saxony
- Seegersong #1
- Seegersong #2
- Septet
- Spectral CANON for CONLON Nancarrow
- Stochastic Quartet
- String Complement
- Swell Piece
- Swell Piece #2
- Swell Piece #3
- Three Pages in the Shape of a Pear
- Three Pieces for Drum Quartet
- Three Pieces for Drum Quartet: Crystal Canon for Edgar Varèse
- Three Pieces for Drum Quartet: Hocket for Henry Cowell
- Three Pieces for Drum Quartet: Wake for Charles Ives
- Water on the Mountain... Fire in Heaven
- Water on the Mountain... Fire in Heaven: A
- Water on the Mountain... Fire in Heaven: B
- Water on the Mountain... Fire in Heaven: C