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James Tenney

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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.

Top songs

  1. Collage #1 ("Blue Suede")
  2. Spectral Canon for Conlon Nancarrow (1976 version; piano roll punched by Nancarrow)
  3. Analog #1 (Noise Study)
  4. Dialogue
  5. Spectral Canon For Conlon Nancarrow
  6. Music for Player Piano
  7. Having Never Written A Note for Percussion
  8. For Ann (rising)
  9. Ergodos II (for John Cage)
  10. Phases (for Edgard Varèse)
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  1. Listen...!
  2. Fabric for Ché
  3. Maximusic
  4. Harmonium #1
  5. Tenney: Three Pages in the Shape of a Pear (In Celebration of Erik Satie)
  6. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #1
  7. Koan
  8. Saxony
  9. Flocking (1993)
  10. Beast
  11. Bridge - Part I, section I (1984)
  12. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #2
  13. Ergodos II
  14. Cellogram
  15. A Rose Is a Rose Is a Round
  16. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #3
  17. For 12 Strings (Rising)
  18. Noise Study
  19. Swell Piece
  20. (Beast) - 1971
  21. Spectral Canon for Conlon Nancarrow - 1976 version; piano roll punched by Nancarrow
  22. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #4
  23. Bridge - Part II (1984)
  24. Form 1 (In Memoriam Edgard Varese)
  25. Ergodos I
  26. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #5
  27. Form 2 (In Memoriam John Cage)
  28. Chromatic Canon
  29. Swell Piece #2
  30. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #6
  31. Maximusic (1965)
  32. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #7
  33. Critical Band
  34. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #8
  35. Poem
  36. Form 3 (in memoriam Stefan Wolpe)
  37. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #10
  38. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #9
  39. Form 4 (in memoriam Morton Feldman)
  40. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #13
  41. Diaphonic Toccata
  42. Edgard Varese - Octandre
  43. Ergodos I For John Cage
  44. Voice(s)
  45. John Cage - Seven
  46. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #11
  47. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #12
  48. Glissade, for Viola Cello, Doublebass and Tape Delay System: Shimmer - 1982
  49. Chorale
  50. Bridge - Part I, section II (1984)
  51. Swell Piece #3
  52. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #14
  53. Dialogue (1963)
  54. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #17
  55. Phases (For Edgard Varese)
  56. Harmonium No. 3
  57. Ergodos II with Instrumental Responses
  58. Two Koans And A Canon: III. [Canon]
  59. August Harp
  60. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #15
  61. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #16
  62. Stochastic Quartet
  63. Two Koans And A Canon: II. Second Koan
  64. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #18
  65. Koan (1971)
  66. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #19
  67. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #22
  68. A Rose is a Rose is a Round (1970)
  69. for percussion perhaps, or...
  70. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #23
  71. Koan: Having Never Written A Note For Percussion
  72. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #25
  73. Monody
  74. (night) (2) - 1971
  75. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #24
  76. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #20
  77. Diaphonic Trio
  78. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #28
  79. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #27
  80. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #30
  81. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #29
  82. (night) - 1971
  83. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #21
  84. Swell Piece (1967)
  85. Blues for Annie
  86. Beast (1971)
  87. Spectrum 1
  88. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #26
  89. 64 Studies for 6 Harps: Study #33
  90. Morton Feldman - Numbers

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