META# HODOS* A Phenomenology of 20th-Century Musical Materials and an Approach to the Study of Form and META Meta # Hodos James Tenney * “meth' od, n. [F. methode, fr. L. methodus, fr. Gr. methodos, method, investigation following after, fr. meta after + hodos way.) ...”Copyrighted Material First Edition, 1986 Second Edition, 1988, 1992, 2000 META / HODOS was originally published by the Inter-American Institute for Musical Research, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1964, and “META Meta #Hodos" in the Journal of Experimental Aesthetics, 1.1, 1977. editor: Larry Polansky design and production: Carter Scholz copy editor: Lauren D. Pratt production assistance: Jody Diamond, D. L. Dudley Many of James Tenney’s scores are available from Frog Peak Music as well as Smith Publications, Baltimore, MD. Copyright © 1986, 1988, 1992, 2000 Frog Peak Music (a composers’ collective) Box 1052 Lebanon, NH 03766 USA 603-448-8837 / fp@frogpeak.org www.frogpeak.org, ISBN 0945996004 YS Copyrighted MaterialCopyrighted Material Contents Publisher’s Introduction i META+HODOS 1 Section I. The New Materials 3 Section II. Gestalt-Factors of Cohesion and Segregation 27 Section III. Formal Factors in the Clang and Sequence 55 Endnotes 84 Glossary 87 Bibliography 96 List of Musical Works Cited 97 META Meta+Hodos 99 Copyrighted Material