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James Tenney fonds

  • F0428
  • Fonds
  • 1946-2000, predominant 1956-2000

Fonds consists of material that documents Tenney's career as an composer, musician and academic and contains personal and professional correspondence with friends and colleagues including copies of letters received from such people as Carolee Schneeman, Steve Reich, Stan Brakhage and Lionel Nowak, among others, as well as correspondence with Bell Telephone Laboratories that documents his efforts in developing programs for computer sound-generation. It also contains records in the form of musical scores, computer outputs, programmes, clippings and sound recordings that document his musical output and material that documents Tenney's ongoing academic and professional interest in the fields of composition, music theory and electronic music, among others. There is also correspondence, photographs and other material that documents his relationship with his family and, in particular, his father.

Tenney, James

Correspondence files

Series consists of personal and professional correspondence including copies of letters received by Tenney from friends and colleagues including Carolee Schneeman, Lionel Nowak, John Pierce, Morton Feldman, John Cage, Steve Reich, Warren Burt, Phil Corner, Malcolm Goldstein, Edgard Varese, Stan Brakhage, Peter Garland and Gayle Young, among others. It also includes correspondence generated in his various professional capacities at educational institutions such as Yale University, the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and Bennington College as well as correspondence, which documents his relationship and work with Bell Telephone Laboratories in developing programs for computer sound-generation, the Institute for Studies in American Music, the Canadian Music Centre and musical organizations or institutions.

Print by Stephan von Huene [15 of 21]

Print 15 of 21 by Stephan von Huene in collaboration with James Tenney for a sound sculpture art installation. They were created to go with the mechanical drum in a sound sculpture. Signed by both Stephan von Huene and James Tenney.

Print by Stephan von Huene [16 of 21]

Print 16 of 21 by Stephan von Huene in collaboration with James Tenney for a sound sculpture art installation. They were created to go with the mechanical drum in a sound sculpture. Signed by both Stephan von Huene and James Tenney.

Print by Stephan von Huene [5 of 21]

Print 5 of 21 by Stephan von Huene in collaboration with James Tenney for an sound sculpture art installation. They were created to go with the mechanical drum in a sound sculpture. Signed by both Stephan von Huene and James Tenney.

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