James Tenney
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About James Tenney
James Tenney (August 10, 1934 - August 24, 2006) was an American composer and influential music theorist. Tenney was born in Silver City, New Mexico, and grew up in Arizona and Colorado. He attended the University of Denver, the Juilliard School of Music, Bennington College (B.A., 1958) and the University of Illinois (M.A., 1961). 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.
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Top Tracks
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Collage #1 ("Blue Suede")
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Spectral Canon for Conlon Nancarrow (1976 version; piano roll punched by Nancarrow)
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Analog #1 (Noise Study)
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Dialogue
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Spectral Canon For Conlon Nancarrow
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Music for Player Piano
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Having Never Written A Note for Percussion
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For Ann (rising)
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Ergodos II (for John Cage)
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Listen...!
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Phases (for Edgard Varèse)
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Fabric for Ché
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Maximusic
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Harmonium #1
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Tenney: Three Pages in the Shape of a Pear (In Celebration of Erik Satie)
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64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #1
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Koan
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Saxony
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Flocking (1993)
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Beast
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Bridge - Part I, section I (1984)
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64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #2
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Ergodos II
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Cellogram
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A Rose Is a Rose Is a Round
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64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #3
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Noise Study
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For 12 Strings (Rising)
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Spectral Canon for Conlon Nancarrow - 1976 version; piano roll punched by Nancarrow
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(Beast) - 1971
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Bridge - Part II (1984)
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64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #4
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Form 1 (In Memoriam Edgard Varese)
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Swell Piece
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Ergodos I
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Form 2 (In Memoriam John Cage)
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64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #5
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Chromatic Canon
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64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #6
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Maximusic (1965)
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64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #7
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Swell Piece #2
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Critical Band
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64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #8
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Form 3 (in memoriam Stefan Wolpe)
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Poem
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Form 4 (in memoriam Morton Feldman)
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64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #10
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64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #9
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Edgard Varese - Octandre
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