From Scratch: Writings in Music Theory

From Scratch: Writings in Music Theory
ISBN-10
0252096673
ISBN-13
9780252096679
Series
From Scratch
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
472
Language
English
Published
2014-10-30
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Author
James Tenney

Description

One of the twentieth century's most important musical thinkers, James Tenney did pioneering work in multiple fields, including computer music, tuning theory, and algorithmic and computer-assisted composition. From Scratch is a collection of Tenney's hard-to-find writings arranged, edited, and revised by the self-described "composer/theorist." Selections focus on his fundamental concerns--"what the ear hears"--and include thoughts and ideas on perception and form, tuning systems and especially just intonation, information theory, theories of harmonic space, and stochastic (chance) procedures of composition.

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