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[Joseph Zitt]

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From: Roberts, Jennifer <Jennifer.Roberts@informa.com>
Date: Jan 22, 2008 3:56 AM



Contemporary Music Review



SPECIAL ISSUE

The Music of James Tenney



Guest Edited by Robert Hasegawa

Volume 27, Number 1, February 2008



In August 2006, the new music world lost one of its most adventurous
and brilliant composers. James Tenney (1934 – 2006) was a pioneer of
computer music, the author of witty yet profound verbal scores, and a
composer of everything from piano rags to orchestral explorations of
subtle microtonal harmonies. A more diverse or accomplished oeuvre is
hard to imagine, Tenney was driven by a constant curiosity about the
universe, describing himself as 'a composer and amateur cosmologist'
(Polansky, 2006).



In tribute to Tenney's remarkable musical accomplishments,
Contemporary Music Review brings together articles on Tenney's
musicologists and composers, including several of his former students.
The articles range from aesthetic reconsiderations to detailed works
and compositional extensions of Tenney's ideas. An important article
by Tenney, 'On "Crystal Growth" in Harmonic Space', is published for
the first time in English. Also, in a 2006 interview with Donnacha
Dennehy looks back on his compositional career, with emphasis on his
various intonation and the influence of Harry Partch and John Cage.



CONTENT OF THE ISSUE



Introduction: 'Sound for the Sake of Perceptual Insight'

Robert Hasegawa



James Tenney and the Poetics of Homage

Bob Gilmore



Theoretical and Formal Continuity in James Tenney's Music

Brian Belet



On 'Crystal Growth' in Harmonic Space (1993– 1998)

James Tenney



Three Crystal Growth Algorithms in 23-limit Constrained Harmonic Space

Marc Sabat, after James Tenney



Interview with James Tenney

Donnacha Dennehy



The Spectral Music of James Tenney

Robert A. Wannamaker



On James Tenney's Arbor Vitae for String Quartet

Michael Winter



James Tenney: Works

Prepared by Gisela Gronemeyer, Lauren Pratt, Marc Sabat, Casia Streb
and Robert A. Wannamaker



James Tenney: Writings

Stina Hanson



For more information please visit:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/spissue/gcmr-si.asp