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Harry Partch

Harry Partch Composer

Recorded Interviews & Speeches

Performances: 1
Tracks: 27
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  • Recorded Interviews & Speeches
    • I am Harry Partch [Spoken]
    • Text and music: A Wagnerian Wrestling Match (spoken)
    • Life is too precious to spend it with important people [Spoken]
    • While my Heart Keeps Beating Time
    • San Francisco II
    • I'm going to start right off by giving you some sounds...
    • A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonation - Prelude to Talk
    • Introduction to Examples of Intonation
    • Scale of Olympos (pentatonic)
    • Enharmonic Scale of Archytas; Separated by 3/2's; Triads
    • Scale of Pythagoras; Separated by 3/2's; Triads
    • Ptolemaic Intense Diatonic; Separated by 3/2's; Triads
    • Ptolemy's Equable Diatonic; Separated by 3/2's
    • Terpander's Hexatonic [2 egs.]
    • Close Degrees
    • True and Tempered Triads
    • Resolutions from p. 186 of Genesis of a Music [2nd Ed., pp. 186, 187]; Resolution p. 187 [2nd Ed.,
    • Fox-Strangways Resolutions [2nd Ed., p. 191]
    • Tonal Flux from Genesis, p. 188 [2nd Ed., p. 189]; Tonal Flux from The Letter and Third Chorus of O
    • Multiple Tonal Senses from Antiphony of Oedipus, "O crowding woods..."
    • Multiple tonal Senses from Dark Brother, "and we who were lost are found again..."; "until our hear
    • Melodic Subtleties from The Street, "Down Maxwell Street, where the prostitutes stand in the gloom.
    • Melodic Subtleties from The Bewitched [7 egs.]
    • Instrumental Tunings: Harmonic Canon I as in Revelation; Petals; Chromelodeon two sets of reeds; Re
    • Dissonance and Consonance: Coda to Oedipus; Coda to Revelation
    • You are charged with being guilty. Are you drunk or not drunk?. . . (spoken introduction, 11/19/53)
    • Harry's Wake [Spoken]

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