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James Tenney

Forms 1-4
Released: 2002
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Composer/theorist James Tenney, along with the Musikfabrik ensemble, memorializes four new music or contemporary classical icons in this most interesting and irrefutably satisfying program. His... Continue[+]
Music for Violin & Piano
Released: 1999
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James Tenney is an iconoclast even among avant-garde composers. His "classicism" (eloquently defined by Art Lange in his liner notes as "...to designate certain formal procedures, implying the... Continue[+]
The Solo Works for Percussion
Released: 1998
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Performed by Matthias Kaul with the assistance of Rüdiger Orth. It contains the shocking "Maximusic" (1965), built from sudden dynamic contrasts of a mysterious soft cymbal roll and an explosion of... Continue[+]
Bridge & Flocking
Released: 1996
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"Bridge" (1984) and "Flocking" (1993) are scored for four and two pianos respectively and in alternate tunings. It takes a while to re-orient one's listening habits to hear beyond the intial... Continue[+]
Critical Band
Released: 1990
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In the collection Relache: On Edge. Tenney's Critical Band (1988) for chamber music ensemble involves slow micro-intervallic tuning expansions within the range (band) of a major second above and... Continue[+]
Harmonium # 5
Released: 1988
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In the collection Arraymusic: Strange City. In Harmonium #5 (1978) for string trio "pure tones become crossed strands of sonorities, much like the cat's cradle, transformed by a finger's twist"... Continue[+]
Three New Seeds
Released: 1993
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In the collection Arraymusic: New World. Composed in 1991 for clarinet/bass clarinet, trumpet, contrabass, piano and two percussionists, this piece treats a similar dramatic gesture to three... Continue[+]
Selected Works: 1961-1969
Released: 1992
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Some of the earliest and most imaginative electronic and computer-generated music. Tenney was one of the first composers to use Max Mathew's computer music synthesis system at Bell Labs, and this... Continue[+]
Music of James Tenney: Selected Works 1963-1984
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This recording includes "Three Indigenous Songs No. 3 (Hey When I Sing These Songs Hey Look What Happens)" (1979), with words based on Iroquois chants coded into instrumental music; "Phases"... Continue[+]
Collage No. 2, Viet Flakes (1967)
Released: 1992
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A tape collage with silences utilizing snatches of pop music urging love and sensibility ("think about it") contrasted with ominous classical phrases and folk music. Very subtle way to make... Continue[+]
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