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James Tenney

James Tenney was an American (1934–2006). The authority record describes James Tenney as James Tenney studied at Bennington College, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and South High School. Employment is recorded with New York University Tandon School of Engineering and California Institute of the Arts. Work by James Tenney is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art.

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Identity

What the record establishes about James Tenney.

James Tenney is recorded with the occupation music arranger. James Tenney is recorded as a citizen of United States. Health services research bibliography / National Center for Health Services. is catalogued and held by Wellcome Collection. Case reports on paleopathology. Case report no. 6 / by James M. Tenney. is dated 1985 and held by Wellcome Collection. James Tenney is recorded as composer, musicologist, music theorist, pianist and draftsperson. Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection is catalogued and held by Museum of Modern Art.

Museum of Modern Art records 1 object associated with this heading. Wellcome Collection records 3 objects associated with this heading. Open Library catalogues 20 works under this name.

Activity and practice

James Tenney is recorded as having studied at Bennington College, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and South High School.

Works and catalogued output

Wikidata Query Service catalogues 2 works under this heading. Wellcome Collection catalogues 3 works under this heading. Open Library catalogues 17 works under this heading.

Authority records

The identifiers under which James Tenney may be traced in institutional catalogues.

James Tenney is established in the international name authorities as MusicBrainz e42207a2-a5c6-400f-a8d0-9e30221c3518, Social Networks and Archival Context w6hx1ctg, Getty Union List of Artist Names 500350651, Bibliothèque nationale de France 140039091, Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) 128957719, Library of Congress n84148369, Libraries Australia 1178105, ISNI 0000000114971009, IdRef 251292959, Discogs 179366, VIAF 111155088 and Wikidata Q715379.

Catalogued works

22 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1958 to 1985.

Interim. Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection, held by Museum of Modern Art. Monody. Rune. The music of James Tenney. From Scratch. Swell piece. Cognate canons. Stochastic string quartet. Meta+hodos. Alvin Lucier. Meta-Hodos and Meta Meta-Hodos. Meta meta + hodos. Meta [plus] hodos. New Music for Plucked Strings. Streetwise Amsterdam. A history of 'consonance' and 'dissonance'. META (+) HODOS. Meta + Hodos and META meta + Hodos. Tenney, S.M., dated 1958, held by Wellcome Collection. Case reports on paleopathology. Case report no. 6 / by James M. Tenney., dated 1985, held by Wellcome Collection. Health services research bibliography / National Center for Health Services., held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.

Museum of Modern Art: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 3 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

5 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Tenney, James, Oxford Music Online, 2001. James Tenney - James Tenney – <i>Harmonium</i>. Scordatura. New World Records 80803, Tempo, 2018. James Tenney - ‘BASS WORKS’: JAMES TENNEY . Dario Calderone (db), William Lane (va), Francesco Dillon (vc). hat[now]ART 197, Tempo, 2017. Tenney, James (1934–2006), Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Aplicação do algoritmo de contraponto dissonante de Tenney na determinação de parciais em espectros de sons concretos, Opus, 2014.

Naming and authority record

This heading is established in Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) (300955790). Those registers additionally record the form Trios, Kl 4hdg., Schz, Nr. 5.

Digitised editions and texts

1 digitised item associated with this heading is catalogued by Internet Archive.

James Tenney - Musicworks 27: The Music Of James Tenney (Musicworks, 1984) (1984) — Internet Archive.

Evidence base

This article draws on 6 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 6 means 6 genuinely separate publishers of record. 13 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

James Tenney studied at Bennington College, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and South High School.

Employment is recorded with New York University Tandon School of Engineering and California Institute of the Arts.

Work by James Tenney is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art.

Chronology

  1. 1934James Tenney born.
  2. 1934James Tenney was born on 10 August 1934.
  3. 1984James Tenney - Musicworks 27: The Music Of James Tenney (Musicworks, 1984) (1984) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
  4. 1984James Tenney - Musicworks 27: The Music Of James Tenney (Musicworks, 1984) digitised by Internet Archive.
  5. 1985Case reports on paleopathology. Case report no. 6 / by James M. Tenney. is dated 1985 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  6. 2006James Tenney died.
  7. 2006James Tenney died on 24 August 2006.
  8. 2006James Tenney died in 2006 at Valencia.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    James Tenney - ‘BASS WORKS’: JAMES TENNEY . Dario Calderone (db), William Lane (va), Francesco Dillon (vc). hat[now]ART 197, Tempo, 2017

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    James Tenney - James Tenney – <i>Harmonium</i>. Scordatura. New World Records 80803, Tempo, 2018

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Musicworks 27: The Music of James Tenney, Computer Music Journal, 1985

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    Open Library author record for James Tenney (Internet Archive), 20 catalogued works.

    Institutional database · Scholarly · Internet Archive

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  5. 5.

    Tenney, James (1934–2006), Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    Tenney, James, Oxford Music Online, 2001

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  7. 7.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q715379: James Tenney

    Institutional database · Scholarly · Wikimedia Foundation

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  8. 8.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 5 articles naming James Tenney.

    open access index · Unverified

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  9. 9.

    Gemeinsame Normdatei 300955790, Trio for James Tenney.

    authority file · Unverified · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

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  10. 10.

    Internet Archive, 5 digitised items catalogued under James Tenney as creator.

    digital repository · Unverified

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  11. 11.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 3 works naming James Tenney.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  12. 12.

    “James Tenney”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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