James Tenney - Music for Violin & Piano

James Tenney is an iconoclast even among avant-garde composers. His "classicism" (eloquently defined by Art Lange in his liner notes as "...to designate certain formal procedures, implying the values of simplicity, restraint, proportion and balance in a non-expressionistic environment...") is one of precise method and mathematical recourse in structures of sound. Tenney's works are concerned with locating timbres, microtonalities, distended harmonics, and even intervals that are made apparent because of this methodology. Read More