James Tenney

Robert Wannamaker is Associate Dean in the School of Music at the California Institute of the Arts, USA. He is the author of The Music of James Tenney, Vols. 1 & 2 (2021) and co-editor of James Tenney’s From Scratch: Writings in Music Theory (2015).Lauren Pratt is the executor of the estate of James Tenney, Canada. She is co-editor of James Tenney’s From Scratch: Writings in Music Theory (2015).Tashi Wada is a composer and independent scholar based in Los Angeles, USA. Wada studied composition with James Tenney at the California Institute of the Arts and has helped oversee Tenney's archive for the past decade.

• List of FiguresPreface1. Introduction2. Early Years (1934–1961)3. Electronic and Computer Music (1961–64)4. With Carolee Schneemann (1955–1968)5. Media, Performance, and Society (1963–69)6. Continuity and Harmony (1970–1985)7. Entropy and Agency (1986–2006)8. On Other Artists9. On Harmonic TheoryAppendix A List of WorksAppendix B List of Writings Appendix C Performances by Tenney (1954–79)Appendix D Performances of Tenney’s Music (1956–76)BibliographyIndex

The volume is packed with scores, including many previously unpublished examples, with in-depth interviews ... It’s a highly readable and invaluable supplement to the previous books about him, bringing out glimmers of Tenney's personal life and how it was connected to his work as an artist.