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James Tenney

James Tenney
Birth
Friday, August 10, 1934
Silver City, NM
United States
Groupes
United States
Modern composers
Electronic music
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Death
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Valencia, CA
United States
Age: 
72

Composition list

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Chamber music

Bridge et Flocking: 4 pianos • Musique de chambre instruments divers

Instrumental music

Musique: piano • (1964) • Pièces
Canon Spectral pour Conlon Nancarrow: piano • (1974) • Pièces à titre
Egrodos I: computer • (1963) • Pièces à titre

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Music: 

In the 1960s James Tenney was a pioneer in electronic and computer-generated music, working in the Bell Telephone laboratories, but his later music is almost all for acoustic instruments.

Biography: 

James Tenney studied at the Juilliard School, Bennington College and the University of Illinois. Among his teachers were Edgard Varèse, Harry Partch, Carl Ruggles and John Cage.

In the early 1970s Tenney was a teacher at the California Institute of the Arts. In 2000 he went back there to take the Roy E. Disney Family Chair in Musical Composition. Other places were he worked are: the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and York University in Toronto.

[source: www.playbillarts.com]

Submitted by Jean-Paul Giraudet on 2006-08-31 04:38.
Last modified: 
2014-06-05 15:50