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22 de feb. de 2021 · by Chris Lortie and Yuval Adler. Published: February 22, 2021. In 1971, American composer James Tenney wrote the solo violin piece Koan as part of his Postal Pieces. The score is contained entirely on a postcard consisting of only seven measures.
13 de mar. de 2024 · Writings are a curated collection of publications on timbre and orchestration studies, spanning research, scholarship, and pedagogy. It provides a platform for sharing knowledge and insights on the study, understanding, application, and teaching of these musical elements.
Among the compositional concerns addressed are the duality of timbre and harmony, the harmonic series as a structural resource, the instrumental synthesis of speech, rhythmic analogs of spectral structures, the expansion of traditional harmonic means, and practical performance considerations.
In particular, his oeuvre includes very early examples of instrumental music involving orchestrations of the harmonic series and of pitch relationships derived from it, “instrumental synthesis” based on spectral analysis, the orchestration of electro-acoustic sounds, structural concepts derived from acoustics and psychoacoustics (including Shepa...
ABSTRACT: The study of timbre and orchestration in symphonic music research is underexplored, and few theories attempt to explain strategies for combining and contrasting instruments and the resulting perception of orchestral structures and textures.
23 de feb. de 2021 · Koan — James Tenney — Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration Project. As part of building the Timbre and Orchestration Resource, this article has been permanently moved to: https://timbreandorchestration.org/writings/amazing-moments-in-timbre/2021/2/22/koan-by-james-tenney. Subwhistle — Brian Jacobs.
This chapter examines Tenney’s harmonic theories and illustrates their compositional expression via analyses of his just-intoned Harmonium #1 (1976) and Harmonium #3 (1978). Keywords: James Tenney, harmony, consonance, dissonance, spectral music, spectralism, just intonation, Tonnetz.
