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Frog Peak Music is an artist-run composers' collective dedicated to publishing and producing experimental and unusual works by its member artists, and is committed to the idea of availability over promotion. Frog Peak Music is a not-for-profit organization in which member artists determine the form and content of their own work.

James Tenney

Composer, theorist, performer


Books

Meta + Hodos and META Meta + Hodos. Often called one of the great music theory books of the 20th century, this is only available through Frog Peak. FP02. $15.

Soundings 13. James Tenney issue, containing writings by and about Tenney, and a number of scores. Only a few copies left. Sou03. $75.

CD's

James Tenney: Selected Works 1961 –1969. RE-ISSUED ON NEW WORLD RECORDS. Artifact CD Co-produced with Frog Peak Music. Produced by Larry Polansky and Lauren Pratt, mastered by Tom Erbe. Contains Tenney's important early computer music from the 1960s at Bell Labs. FP01. $15.

Cocks Crow, Dogs Bark: New Compositional Intentions. OUT OF STOCK. Limited edition Leonardo Music Journal collection containing "Artifacts" by Ames; plus music by Spiegel, Goode, Monro, Wolff, Johnson, Tenney, Simoni, Didkovsky, Burt, and Feldman. FP18. $18.

Scores

The Road to Ubud (score). Gamelan and prepared piano. Ten02. $25.

The Road to Ubud (piano part only). Gamelan and prepared piano. Ten03. $15.

Rune. Percussion quintet. Ten04. $30.

Critical Band (instruments in Eb). Variable ensemble and tape delay. Ten05e. $15.

Critical Band (instruments in Bb). Variable ensemble and tape delay. Ten05b. $15.

Critical Band (instruments in C). Variable ensemble and tape delay. Ten05c. $15.

Critical Band (score for piano). Variable ensemble and tape delay. Ten05k. $15.

Critical Band (Complete Set). Variable ensemble and tape delay. Scores for piano, instruments in Eb, Bb, and C. Complete set of four scores. Ten53. $50.

Three Rags. Piano. Ten07. $15.

Three Pieces for Drum Quartet. Ten08. $15.

Three New Seeds. Clarinet, trumpet, contrabass, percussion and piano. Ten09. $15.

Ain't I a Woman? (score only). 3 cellos, 2 violins, 2 violas and celeste. Ten10. $25.

Ain't I a Woman? (score and parts). 3 cellos, 2 violins, 2 violas and celeste. Ten11. $45.

Pika-Don. Percussion and tape. Includes 4 tape tracks on CDR. Reel-to-reel tape rental no longer available. Ten12. $45.

Cognate Canons (score only). String quartet and percussion. Ten14. $25.

Cognate Canons (score and parts). String quartet and percussion. Ten16. $50.

Forms 1-4. Indeterminate instrumentation. Score. Ten17. $20.

Tableaux Vivants. Saxophone, violin, vibraphone, clarinet, bassoon and piano. Ten15. $50.

Sneezles (score only). Soprano, flute or alto recorder, clarinet, vibraphone, violin, guitar, trombone or tenor bass and contrabass. Ten22. $15.

Sneezles (score and parts). Soprano, flute or alto recorder, clarinet, vibraphone, violin, guitar, trombone or tenor bass and contrabass. Ten23. $40.

Diapason. Chamber orchestra. Score. Ten27. $20.

In a Large Open Space. 12 or more sustaining instruments. Ten28. $15.

Flocking. Two pianos. Ten29. $15.

Just a Bagatelle. Viola. Ten30. $15.

'SCEND for SCELSI (Eb). Chamber ensemble with alto saxophone. Ten31a. $15.

'SCEND for SCELSI (F). Chamber ensemble with alto saxophone. Ten31b. $15.

'SCEND for SCELSI (Bb). Chamber ensemble with alto saxophone. Ten31c. $15.

'SCEND for SCELSI (C). Chamber ensemble with alto saxophone. Ten31d. $15.

'SCEND for SCELSI (Complete Set). Chamber ensemble with alto saxophone. Complete set of four scores, Eb, Bb, F, and C. Ten31. $50.

Diaphonic Trio. Violin and piano. Ten32. $20.

Beatles Song Arrangements. "Do You Want To Know A Secret"and "Love Me Do." Ten33. $15.

Prelude and Toccata. For piano. Ten38. $15.

To Weave (a meditation). For piano. Ten39. $15.

Seegersong #1. For solo clarinet or bass clarinet. Ten40. $15.

Seegersong #2. For solo flute or alto flute. Ten41. $15.

Last Spring in Toronto (score only). For small orchestra and gamelan. Ten42. $25.

Last Spring in Toronto (score and parts). For small orchestra and gamelan. Ten62. $125.

Song 'N' Dance for Harry Partch. For adapted viola, diamond marimba, strings and percussion. Ten43. $25

Harmonium #7. For any 12 or more sustaining instruments. Ten44. $25.

Spectrum 1. For seven instruments. Score. Ten45. $15.

Spectrum 2 (score only). Wind Quintet. Ten25. $20.

Spectrum 2 (score and parts). Wind Quintet. Ten26. $45.

Spectrum 3. For chamber orchestra. Score. Ten46. $25.

Spectrum 4. For eight instruments. Score. Ten47. $15.

Spectrum 5 (score only). For ten instruments. Ten48. $25.

Spectrum 5 (score and parts). For ten instruments. Ten59. $60.

Spectrum 6. For six instruments. Score. Ten49. $15.

Spectrum 7. For trio. Score. Ten50. $15.

Spectrum 8 (score only). For viola and six instruments. Ten51. $15.

Spectrum 8 (score and parts). For viola and six instruments. Ten57. $40.

Ergodos III. For two pianos. Ten52. $15.

For Piano and... Piano and 15 or more other instruments. Ten54. $15.

Arbor Vitae. String quartet. Ten55. $15.

Essay (after a sonata). Piano. Ten58. $15.

String Quartet in One Movement. Two violins, viola and cello. Ten60. $15.

Canon for Contrabass Quartet. Ten61. $15.

Dance: "Mallets in the Air" (score only). An arrangement of the second movemet of "Song 'n' Dance for Harry Partch". Diamond marimba and string quartet. Score and parts. Ten63s. $15.

Dance: "Mallets in the Air" (score and parts). An arrangement of the second movemet of "Song 'n' Dance for Harry Partch". Diamond marimba and string quartet. Score and parts. Ten63. $40.

Diaphonic Toccata. Violin and piano. Ten64. $15.

Chorales for Harmonic Piano. Piano. Ten65. $15.

Diaphonic Study. String quartet and piano. Ten66. $25.

Blues Canon (from "Listen...!). Viola, violoncello, contrabass. Ten67. $15.

Frog Peak Unbound

Aphorism #1 and Aphorism #2

Variations in A (on a theme by my father). Solo piano.

Improvisation for Cello.

Homage to Perotin (in the Phrygian Mode).

Trio. Flute, oboe and clarinet in A.

In A Large Open Space. For any 12 or more sustaining instruments.

The Early Works of James Tenney. Larry Polansky. First published in Soundings 13: The Music of James Tenney edited by Peter Garland.

A Few Words about Jim Tenney. Larry Polansky. First published in A Companion to Slug Frog Peak Newsletter #13.

 

Frog Peak Collections

New Music for Plucked Strings. Scorebook. Music by Tenney (Septet), Alrich, Simon, Polansky, and others. Frog Peak Publication. FP03. $15.

Writings

Musicworks 27 (Spring 1984). Featured articles include "A Tradition of Experiementation: James tenney in Conversation with Udo Kasemets and Musicworks"and " John Cage and the Theory of Harmony," by James Tenney. MW27A. $8.

Musicworks 77 (Summer 2000). Featured articles include "James Tenney's Cultural and Compositional Diversity," by Gayle Young; "A Different View of a Larger Picure: James Tenney in Conversation with Ciarán Maher on Harmony, Intention, and Phenomenology," by Ciarán Maher; and "The Politics of Improvisation," by Malcolm Goldstein. MW77. $8.


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