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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 (ch6̀0ance) procedures of composition.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. On the Development of the Structural Potentialities of Rhythm, Dynamics, and Timbre in the Early Nontonal Music of Arnold Schoenberg (1959)
• 2. Meta Hodos (1961)
• 3. Computer Music Experiences, 1961
• 1964 (1964)
• 4. On the Physical Correlates of Timbre (1965)
• 5. Excerpts from "An Experimental Investigation of Timbre
• -the Violin" (1966)
• 6. Form in Twentieth-Century Music (1969
• 70)
• 7. META Meta Hodos (1975)
• 8. Chronological Development of Carl Ruggles's Melodic Style (1977)
• 9. Hierarchical Temporal Gestalt Perception in Music: A Metric Space Model (with Larry Polansky) (1978
• 80)
• 10. Introduction to "Contributions toward a Quantitative Theory of Harmony" (1979)
• 11. Structure of Harmonic Series Aggregates (1979)
• 12. John Cage and the Theory of Harmony (1983)
• 13. Reflections after Bridge (1984)
• 14. Review of Music as Heard by Thomas Clifton (1985)
• 15. About Changes: Sixty-Four Studies for Six Harps (1987)
• 16. Darmstadt Lecture (1990)

• 17. Several Dimensions of Pitch (1993/2003)
• 18. On "Crystal Growth" in Harmonic Space (1993/2003)
• 19. About Diapason (1996).

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Author/Creator:

Tenney, James , author

Contributors:

Pratt, Lauren , editor

Wannamaker, Robert , editor

Winter, Michael , editor

Polansky, Larry, 1954- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

From scratch: writings in music theory [by Tenney, J.]

Subjects:

Tenney, James

Music theory

Composition (Music)

Music — Philosophy and aesthetics

Music

General Notes:

Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

MT6 .T46 2015

ISBNs:

9780252096679 (electronic bk.)
0252096673 (electronic bk.)
9780252038723 [Invalid]
025203872X [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

923011166

Other Control Numbers:

760250 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12012053