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Harry Partch
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales. He built custom-made instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions, and described his theory and practice in his book Genesis of a Music (1947).
Partch composed with scales dividing the octave into 43 unequal tones derived from the natural harmonic series; these scales allowed for more tones of smaller intervals than in standard Western tuning, which uses twelve equal intervals to the octave. To play his music, Partch built a large number of unique instruments, with such names as the Chromelodeon, the Quadrangularis Reversum, and the Zymo-Xyl. Partch described his music as corporeal, and distinguished it from abstract music, which he perceived as the dominant trend in Western music since the time of Bach. His earliest compositions were small-scale pieces to be intoned to instrumental backing; his later works were large-scale, integrated theater productions in which he expected each of the performers to sing, dance, speak, and play instruments. Ancient Greek theatre and Japanese Noh and kabuki heavily influenced his music theatre.
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Podcasts:
Harry Partch
ALBUMS
- The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 3 released: 2005
- The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 1 released: 2004
- U.S. Highball (Kronos Quartet) released: 2003
- Delusion of the Fury: A Ritual of Dream and Delusion released: 1999
- The Harry Partch Collection - Vol.1 released: 1997
- The Bewitched (Members of the University of Illinois Musical Ensemble feat. conductor: John Garvey) released: 1997
- And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma released: 1966
- The World of Harry Partch released:
- Enclosure 5 released:
- Revelation in the Courthouse Park released:
- 17 Lyrics of Li Po released:
The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 3
Released 2005- The Dreamer That Remains - A Study in Loving
- Rotate the Body in All Its Planes - Ballad for Gymnasts
- Windsong
- The Opening Prologue, and the Second Prologue, in Which the Instruments Attack the Producer
- Water Criers and Lead-In Lines, O What Could He Do but Pick Her Up?
- Water Criers, and Lead-In Lines, Witch for Water. The Aldermen's Fugue on No. Wanda the Water Witch
- Santa Mystiana the Beautiful
- Water Criers. Visitors From Strange and Foreign Places: The Singer From Spoleto, and an Alabama Mockingbird - Dear Old Alabama
- We Really Love Each Other. In 43 Whines to the Octave
- Water Criers. The Baseball Game Is Called on Account of Rain!
- To Hell With the Game! Rain! Rain! The Highest Goodness Is Like Water
- Opening Epilogue (After Three Days of Rain). Ghosts, Undele, Oomph! (The Indian Ghosts dance Over Clarence's Body and Play on Liquor Bottles)
- Water Criers. Intervening Dialog. We'll Sue You for a Million!
- Do-Lo-Do-Lo - Doom! Phoebus Bids Farewell. The Indian Runners Bring News. The Final Song and Dance, Gone, Man, Gone! With the Descending Moan of the Siren Phoebus Plunges Wildly Into Nothingness.
- Eighth Epilogue - The Producer Finally Silences the Instruments. Final Epilogue: "The Highest Goodness Is Like Water."
The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 1
Released 2004- Study on Olympos' Pentatonic
- Study on Archytas' Enharmonic
- The Rose
- The Crane
- The Waterfall
- The Wind
- The Street
- Lover
- Soldiers - War - Another War
- Vanity
- Cloud-Chamber Music
- Castor
- Pollux
- Ring Around the Moon, Phase One
- Ring Around the Moon, Phase Two
- Ring Around the Moon, Phase Three
- Ring Around the Moon, Phase Four
- Even Wild Horses, Act I Scene 1
- Even Wild Horses, Act I Scene 2
- Even Wild Horses, Act I Scene 3
- Even Wild Horses, Act II Scene 1
- Even Wild Horses, Act II Scene 2
- Even Wild Horses, Act II Scene 3
- Even Wild Horses, Act III Scene 1
- Even Wild Horses, Act III Scene 2
- Ulysses at the Edge
Delusion of the Fury: A Ritual of Dream and Delusion
Released 1999- The Beginning of a Web
- Chorus of Shadows
- The Pilgrimage
- Emergence of the Spirit
- A Son in Search of His Father's Face
- Cry From Another Darkness
- Pray for Me
- An Entr'acte
- The Quiet Hobo Meal
- The Lost Kid
- Time of Fun Together
- The Misunderstanding
- Arrest, Trial and Judgement (Joy in the Marketplace!)
- Pray for Me Again - A STRANGE FEAR!
The Harry Partch Collection - Vol.1
Released 1997- Eleven Intrusions: I. Study on Olympos' Pentatonic
- Eleven Intrusions: II. Study on Archytas' Enharmonic
- Eleven Intrusions: III. The Rose
- Eleven Intrusions: IV. The Crane
- Eleven Intrusions: V. The Waterfall
- Eleven Intrusions: VI. The Wind
- Eleven Intrusions: VII. The Street
- Eleven Intrusions: VIII. Lover
- Eleven Intrusions: IX. Soldiers - War - Another War
- Eleven Intrusions: X. Vanity
- Eleven Intrusions: XI. Cloud-Chamber Music
- Castor & Pollux, A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini: I. Castor
- Castor & Pollux, A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini: II. Pollux
- Ring Around the Moon, A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now: Phase One. Well, bless my soul! (Well, bless my soul!)
- Ring Around the Moon, A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now: Phase Two. One, Two, Three - X, Y, Z
- Ring Around the Moon, A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now: Phase Three. Shake hands now, boys, and at the sound of the bell come out fighting!
- Ring Around the Moon, A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now: Phase Four. Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoity toity, hotsy totsy, acey deucy, hoochy-koochy (Look out! He's got a gun!)
- Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act I Scene 1. A Decent and Honorable Mistake (Samba)
- Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act I, Scene 2. Rhythm of the Womb - Melody of the Grave (Heartbeat Rhythm)
- Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act I, Scene 3. Happy Birthday to You! (Afro-Chinese Minuet)
- Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act II, Scene 1. "Nor These Lips Upon Your Eyes" (Rumba)
- Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act II, Scene 2. "Hunger, Thirst, Shouts, Dance!" (Ñañiga)
- Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act II, Scene 3. "Land of Darkness and of Whirlwinds" (Slow, Fast, Wild!)
- Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act III, Scene 1. "Had I Not Once a Lovely Youth?" (Conga)
- Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act III, Scene 2. "Let Us Contemplate Undazed the Endless Reaches of My Innocence" (Tahitian Dance)
- Ulysses at the Edge
The Bewitched (Members of the University of Illinois Musical Ensemble feat. conductor: John Garvey)
Released 1997- The Bewitched: Prologue. The Lost Musicians Mix Magic
- The Bewitched: Scene 1. Three Undergrads Become Transfigured in a Hong Kong Music Hall
- The Bewitched: Scene 2. Excercises in Harmony and Counterpoint Are Tried in a Court of Ancient Ritual
- The Bewitched: Scene 3. The Romancing of a Pathological Liar Comes to an Inspired End
- The Bewitched: Scene 4. A Soul Tormented by Contemporary Music Finds a Humanizing Alchemy
- The Bewitched: Scene 5. Visions Fill the Eyes of a Defeated Basketball Team in the Shower Room
- The Bewitched: Scene 6. Euphoria Descends a Sausalito Stairway
- The Bewitched: Scene 7. Two Detectives on the Trail of a Tricky Culprit Turn in Their Badges
- The Bewitched: Scene 8. A Court in Its Own Contempt Rises to a Motherly Apothesis
- The Bewitched: Scene 9. A Lost Political Soul Finds Himself Among the Voteless Women of Paradise
- The Bewitched: Scene 10. The Cognoscenti Are Plunged Into a Demonic Descent While at Cocktails / Epilogue
Enclosure 5
- King Oedipus: Tiresias Scene (Continued)
- King Oedipus: Second Chorus
- King Oedipus: Creon Scene
- King Oedipus: Jocasta Scene
- King Oedipus: Incidental Music
- King Oedipus: Third Chorus
- King Oedipus: Messenger Scene
- King Oedipus: Fourth Chorus
- King Oedipus: Herdsman Scene
- King Oedipus: Oedipus Scene
- King Oedipus: Fifth Chorus
- King Oedipus: Instrumental Commentary
- King Oedipus: Antiphony
- King Oedipus: Exit Oedipus - Dance-Pantomime
- King Oedipus: Final Chorus
- Johann Krieger: Menuet From Partita in G
- Douglas Moore: Come Away, Death
- Come Away, Death From December, 1942
- By the Rivers of Babylon (137th Psalm)
- Introduction to the Bewitched
17 Lyrics of Li Po
- The Long Departed Lover
- On The City Street
- An Encounter in the Field
- The Intruder
- On Ascending the Sin-Ping Tower
- In the Springtime on the South Side of the Yangtze Kiang
- The Night of Sorrow
- On Hearing the Flute in the Yellow Crane House
- On Hearing the Flute at Lo-Cheng One Spring Night (2)
- A Dream
- On Seeing Off Meng Hao-Jan
- On the Ship of Spice-wood
- With a Man of Leisure
- A Midnight Farewell (2)
- Before the Cask of Wine (2)
- By the Great Wall
- I am a Peach Tree
Born: 1901-06-24
Died: 1974-09-03
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Harry Partch - The World Of Harry Partch (1969) FULL ALBUM
Columbia Masterworks – MS 7207 (US, 1969) https://www.discogs.com/Harry-Partch-The-World-Of-Harry-Partch/release/833758 00:00 A1. Daphne Of The Dunes 17:35 B1. Barstow - Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions From A Highway Railing At Barstow, California 27:00 B2. Castor & Pollux - A Dance For The Twin Rhythms Of Gemini From Plectra & Percussion Dances Supervisor, Composer, Viola, Voices - Harry Partch Conductor, Performer - Danlee Mitchell Producer - John McClure Performed by - John McAllister, Michael Ranta, Linda Schell, Frank Berberich, Gary Coleman, Dean Drummond, Richard Lapore, Robert McCormick, Todd Miller, Emil Richards Voices - John Stannard
published: 18 Jun 2017 -
Partch performs Castor & Pollux by Harry Partch
PRISM Quartet, Inc. Presents COLOR THEORY PRISM Quartet and Partch (East Coast Debut) June 12, 2016 Roulette 509 Atlantic Ave • Brooklyn, NY Partch Erin Barnes: diamond marimba Alison Bjorkedal: kithara, "Castor" canon Matt Cook: surrogate kithara, "Pollux" canon David Johnson: cloud chamber bowls, chromelodeon John Schneider: harmonic "Castor" canon, adapted viola Nick Terry: bass marimba, cloud chamber bowls T. J. Troy: bass marimba CASTOR & POLLUX (1952) by Harry Partch (1901 – 1974) A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini CASTOR, Leda and the Swan 1. Insemination 2. Conception 3. Incubation 4. Delivery POLLUX, Leda and the Swan 1. Insemination 2. Conception 3. Incubation 4. Delivery Perhaps the only ‘triple exposure’ in music history, Partch called this infectio...
published: 04 Oct 2020 -
Harry Partch: SONATA DEMENTIA (1950)
Harry Partch’s first extended abstract composition was initially called Tonality Flux, the term he used for his brand of microtonal modulation. Its completion had to await the construction of the Bass Marimba & the Hypobass, and by the time the virtuosic “Mumbo-Jumbo…” vocal part had been added, it was renamed Sonata Dementia (1950), perhaps reflecting the psychological stress the composer felt in his isolation in Gualala, on the coast of Northern California. It was left unperformed until 1952 when added revisions were completed at Mills College, and it was presented as Ring Around The Moon. When recorded as such, the composer called it, “A satire on the world of singers and singing, music and dance; on concerts and concert audiences, where the occasional perception of an American word is ...
published: 13 Nov 2020 -
Harry Partch Documentary-The Outsider
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 -- September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments. He was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales. He built custom-made instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions, and described his theory and practice in his book Genesis of a Music (1947 and 1974). Partch composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, derived from the natural Harmonic series; these scales allowed for more tones of smaller intervals than in the standard Western tuning, which uses twelve equal intervals to the octave. Partch divided the octave into 43 unequal tones. To play this music, he built a large number of unique instruments, with names such as the ...
published: 20 Jun 2014 -
HARRY PARTCH - The Dreamer That Remains (Original Film 1972)
"A Study in Loving" and portrait at a time in Harry's life. 1972 Film by Betty Freeman and Stephen Pouliot, conducted by Jack Logan, music direction Danlee Mitchell, sound recordist Mark Hoffman. Filmed on location at San Diego State University, and Encinitas California. Purchase this on the Innova Enclosure Series at Amazon...so Harry can buy a Mercedes sometime soon. Harry Partch Resources: https://www.harrypartch.com/ http://www.corporealmeadows.com/ https://www.innova.mu/composers/harry-partch http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album;_id=80621 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDSchX00l5IeJClVR_RvzA/videos TUNE UP DROP IN HANG OUT
published: 20 Sep 2016 -
The Harry Partch Instrumentarium
UPDATE October 3, 2023: The Partch residency at UW has concluded. Since 2020, the Partch Instrumentarium has been in storage, with occasional events presented In the Pacific Northwest by Charles Corey and the Harry Partch Ensemble. For updates, visit www.harrypartch.com and subscribe to the mailing list. Harry Partch (1901-1974) was an iconoclastic American composer and instrument inventor with a passion for integrating musicians, actors, and dancers in large-scale works of total-theater. He was "seduced into carpentry" by his interest in just intonation and his need to have an orchestra tuned to this system. The instruments are more than just producers of tone, however — each one has an evocative name and dramatic physical presence, and each one puts unique physical demands on the perf...
published: 13 Jul 2017 -
HARRY PARTCH - Delusion of the Fury (Original Film 1969)
Harry Partch Resources: https://www.harrypartch.com/ http://www.corporealmeadows.com/ https://www.innova.mu/composers/harry-partch http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album;_id=80621 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDSchX00l5IeJClVR_RvzA/videos Delusion of the Fury: A Ritual of Dream and Delusion, A Film by MadelineTourtelot, Recorded at UCLA Playhouse 1969. Conducted by Danlee Mitchell, musician assembly Emil Richards. PlayList: The Dreamer That Remains (movie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt2cJEQk9kE King Oedipus (W.B Yeats Translation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2jHtfk2ljM Revelation inthe Corthouse Park (Audio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpqQ6R2wiG8 Music Studio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUrDs_xfoQ Dreamer that Remains (Audio) https://www.youtube...
published: 18 Sep 2016 -
And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma (Harry Partch)
And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma (Harry Partch) Gate 5 Ensemble; Danlee Mitchell, Harry Partch, Michael Ranta, Emil Richards, Wallace Snow, Stephen Tosh from "The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 2" New World Records 80622-2 http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album;_id=80622 www.newworldrecords.org ©2014 Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
published: 12 Aug 2014 -
Harry Partch introducing The Bewitched, WTTW-Chicago, "Imprint", 1957
Harry Partch (1901-1974) with ensemble members: Danlee Mitchell Jack McKenzie Thomas Gauger Michael Donzella WTTW-Chicago, Art Director, Bob Kostka; Producer, Richard Mansfield. Script for the show is published in Enclosure Three: Harry Partch, by Philip Blackburn Danlee Mitchell writes (in 2022): The studio that the 1957 WTTW-Chicago program was held was at the WTTW TV studios located (as I recall) in the Chicago Museum of Science (or adjacent to), just south of downtown Chicago. This was after the 1957 THE BEWITCHED being performed on the UI campus (rehearsals in the Fall of 56), with an immediate runout to St. Louis. Bob Kostka, the producer of the WTTW show, was somehow acquainted with Harry, but I forget how their connection began. Why Harry agreed to this WTTW appearance also ...
published: 20 Apr 2022 -
HARRY PARTCH - Music Studio (Documentary)
Harry Partch Resources: https://www.harrypartch.com/ http://www.corporealmeadows.com/ https://www.innova.mu/composers/harry-partch http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album;_id=80621 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDSchX00l5IeJClVR_RvzA/videos A documentary about Partch's hand-built microtonal instruments. Film by Madeline Tourtelot 1958. Purchase this on the Innova Enclosure Series at Amazon...so Harry can take everyone out for ice cream sometime soon. TUNE UP DROP IN HANG OUT
published: 25 Sep 2016
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Harry Partch - The World Of Harry Partch (1969) FULL ALBUM
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- Duration: 43:26
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Columbia Masterworks – MS 7207 (US, 1969)
https://www.discogs.com/Harry-Partch-The-World-Of-Harry-Partch/release/833758
00:00 A1. Daphne Of The Dunes
17:35 B1...
Columbia Masterworks – MS 7207 (US, 1969)
https://www.discogs.com/Harry-Partch-The-World-Of-Harry-Partch/release/833758
00:00 A1. Daphne Of The Dunes
17:35 B1. Barstow - Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions From A Highway Railing At Barstow, California
27:00 B2. Castor & Pollux - A Dance For The Twin Rhythms Of Gemini From Plectra & Percussion Dances
Supervisor, Composer, Viola, Voices - Harry Partch
Conductor, Performer - Danlee Mitchell
Producer - John McClure
Performed by - John McAllister, Michael Ranta, Linda Schell, Frank Berberich, Gary Coleman, Dean Drummond, Richard Lapore, Robert McCormick, Todd Miller, Emil Richards
Voices - John Stannard
https://wn.com/Harry_Partch__The_World_Of_Harry_Partch_(1969)_Full_Album
Columbia Masterworks – MS 7207 (US, 1969)
https://www.discogs.com/Harry-Partch-The-World-Of-Harry-Partch/release/833758
00:00 A1. Daphne Of The Dunes
17:35 B1. Barstow - Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions From A Highway Railing At Barstow, California
27:00 B2. Castor & Pollux - A Dance For The Twin Rhythms Of Gemini From Plectra & Percussion Dances
Supervisor, Composer, Viola, Voices - Harry Partch
Conductor, Performer - Danlee Mitchell
Producer - John McClure
Performed by - John McAllister, Michael Ranta, Linda Schell, Frank Berberich, Gary Coleman, Dean Drummond, Richard Lapore, Robert McCormick, Todd Miller, Emil Richards
Voices - John Stannard
16:36
Partch performs Castor & Pollux by Harry Partch
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- Duration: 16:36
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PRISM Quartet, Inc.
Presents
COLOR THEORY
PRISM Quartet and Partch (East Coast Debut)
June 12, 2016
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave • Brooklyn, NY
Partch
Erin Bar...
PRISM Quartet, Inc.
Presents
COLOR THEORY
PRISM Quartet and Partch (East Coast Debut)
June 12, 2016
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave • Brooklyn, NY
Partch
Erin Barnes: diamond marimba
Alison Bjorkedal: kithara, "Castor" canon
Matt Cook: surrogate kithara, "Pollux" canon
David Johnson: cloud chamber bowls, chromelodeon
John Schneider: harmonic "Castor" canon, adapted viola
Nick Terry: bass marimba, cloud chamber bowls
T. J. Troy: bass marimba
CASTOR & POLLUX (1952) by Harry Partch (1901 – 1974)
A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini
CASTOR, Leda and the Swan
1. Insemination
2. Conception
3. Incubation
4. Delivery
POLLUX, Leda and the Swan
1. Insemination
2. Conception
3. Incubation
4. Delivery
Perhaps the only ‘triple exposure’ in music history, Partch called this infectious dance music, “A tribute to the twin stars of luck. Atonal-dynamic dithyramb. A ritualistic ecstasy…In Castor each of the first three sections requires pairs of different instruments and dancers, all three of which have identical measure patterns, but not necessarily the same rhythms. Number 4, then, is the total of these, played and danced simultaneously. Thus, three different compositions become one composition—the “Delivery,” the logical result and the sum total of the factors that make it inevitable. Pollux follows the same plan: Numbers 5, 6, and 7 combined to result in Number 8.”
Harry Partch (1901-1974) is the iconoclastic American Maverick composer who, between 1930 and 1972, created one of the most amazing bodies of sensually alluring and emotionally powerful music of the 20th century. Partch wrote music drama, dance theater, multi-media extravaganzas, vocal music, and chamber music—all to be performed on the extraordinary orchestra of instruments that he designed and built himself. The Great Depression forced Partch to spend many years as a transient. It was during these years that he collected the texts and experiences that would later form the basis for The Wayward, a collection of musical compositions based on the spoken and written words of hobos and other characters.
To obtain COLOR THEORY featuring PRISM Quartet and Partch, please visit https://www.prismquartet.com/recording/color-theory/
https://wn.com/Partch_Performs_Castor_Pollux_By_Harry_Partch
PRISM Quartet, Inc.
Presents
COLOR THEORY
PRISM Quartet and Partch (East Coast Debut)
June 12, 2016
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave • Brooklyn, NY
Partch
Erin Barnes: diamond marimba
Alison Bjorkedal: kithara, "Castor" canon
Matt Cook: surrogate kithara, "Pollux" canon
David Johnson: cloud chamber bowls, chromelodeon
John Schneider: harmonic "Castor" canon, adapted viola
Nick Terry: bass marimba, cloud chamber bowls
T. J. Troy: bass marimba
CASTOR & POLLUX (1952) by Harry Partch (1901 – 1974)
A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini
CASTOR, Leda and the Swan
1. Insemination
2. Conception
3. Incubation
4. Delivery
POLLUX, Leda and the Swan
1. Insemination
2. Conception
3. Incubation
4. Delivery
Perhaps the only ‘triple exposure’ in music history, Partch called this infectious dance music, “A tribute to the twin stars of luck. Atonal-dynamic dithyramb. A ritualistic ecstasy…In Castor each of the first three sections requires pairs of different instruments and dancers, all three of which have identical measure patterns, but not necessarily the same rhythms. Number 4, then, is the total of these, played and danced simultaneously. Thus, three different compositions become one composition—the “Delivery,” the logical result and the sum total of the factors that make it inevitable. Pollux follows the same plan: Numbers 5, 6, and 7 combined to result in Number 8.”
Harry Partch (1901-1974) is the iconoclastic American Maverick composer who, between 1930 and 1972, created one of the most amazing bodies of sensually alluring and emotionally powerful music of the 20th century. Partch wrote music drama, dance theater, multi-media extravaganzas, vocal music, and chamber music—all to be performed on the extraordinary orchestra of instruments that he designed and built himself. The Great Depression forced Partch to spend many years as a transient. It was during these years that he collected the texts and experiences that would later form the basis for The Wayward, a collection of musical compositions based on the spoken and written words of hobos and other characters.
To obtain COLOR THEORY featuring PRISM Quartet and Partch, please visit https://www.prismquartet.com/recording/color-theory/
- published: 04 Oct 2020
- views: 31178
10:22
Harry Partch: SONATA DEMENTIA (1950)
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- Duration: 10:22
- Uploaded Date: 13 Nov 2020
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Harry Partch’s first extended abstract composition was initially called Tonality Flux, the term he used for his brand of microtonal modulation. Its completion h...
Harry Partch’s first extended abstract composition was initially called Tonality Flux, the term he used for his brand of microtonal modulation. Its completion had to await the construction of the Bass Marimba & the Hypobass, and by the time the virtuosic “Mumbo-Jumbo…” vocal part had been added, it was renamed Sonata Dementia (1950), perhaps reflecting the psychological stress the composer felt in his isolation in Gualala, on the coast of Northern California. It was left unperformed until 1952 when added revisions were completed at Mills College, and it was presented as Ring Around The Moon. When recorded as such, the composer called it, “A satire on the world of singers and singing, music and dance; on concerts and concert audiences, where the occasional perception of an American word is an odd kind of shock. Also a satire on the world in general, on whimsy and caprice, on music in 43 tones to the octave, on people who conceive such things, on grand flourishes that lead to nothing, on satyrs, or on nothing.” L.A.'s PARTCH premiered the original version at REDCAT in 2006 as part of MicroFest. The premiere recording was released in 2019 on Bridge Records [CD 9525] "Sonata Dementia."
https://wn.com/Harry_Partch_Sonata_Dementia_(1950)
Harry Partch’s first extended abstract composition was initially called Tonality Flux, the term he used for his brand of microtonal modulation. Its completion had to await the construction of the Bass Marimba & the Hypobass, and by the time the virtuosic “Mumbo-Jumbo…” vocal part had been added, it was renamed Sonata Dementia (1950), perhaps reflecting the psychological stress the composer felt in his isolation in Gualala, on the coast of Northern California. It was left unperformed until 1952 when added revisions were completed at Mills College, and it was presented as Ring Around The Moon. When recorded as such, the composer called it, “A satire on the world of singers and singing, music and dance; on concerts and concert audiences, where the occasional perception of an American word is an odd kind of shock. Also a satire on the world in general, on whimsy and caprice, on music in 43 tones to the octave, on people who conceive such things, on grand flourishes that lead to nothing, on satyrs, or on nothing.” L.A.'s PARTCH premiered the original version at REDCAT in 2006 as part of MicroFest. The premiere recording was released in 2019 on Bridge Records [CD 9525] "Sonata Dementia."
- published: 13 Nov 2020
- views: 15922
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Harry Partch Documentary-The Outsider
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- Duration: 59:17
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Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 -- September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments. He was one of the first 20th-cen...
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 -- September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments. He was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales. He built custom-made instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions, and described his theory and practice in his book Genesis of a Music (1947 and 1974).
Partch composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, derived from the natural Harmonic series; these scales allowed for more tones of smaller intervals than in the standard Western tuning, which uses twelve equal intervals to the octave. Partch divided the octave into 43 unequal tones. To play this music, he built a large number of unique instruments, with names such as the Chromelodeon, the Quadrangularis Reversum, and the Zymo-Xyl. Partch described his own music as corporeal, and distinguished it from abstract music, which he perceived as the dominant trend in Western music since the time of Bach. His earliest compositions were small-scale pieces to be intoned to instrumental backing; his later works were large-scale, integrated theater productions in which he expected each of the performers to sing, dance, speak, and play instruments. Ancient Greek theatre and Japanese Noh and kabuki heavily influenced his music theatre.
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https://wn.com/Harry_Partch_Documentary_The_Outsider
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 -- September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments. He was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales. He built custom-made instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions, and described his theory and practice in his book Genesis of a Music (1947 and 1974).
Partch composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, derived from the natural Harmonic series; these scales allowed for more tones of smaller intervals than in the standard Western tuning, which uses twelve equal intervals to the octave. Partch divided the octave into 43 unequal tones. To play this music, he built a large number of unique instruments, with names such as the Chromelodeon, the Quadrangularis Reversum, and the Zymo-Xyl. Partch described his own music as corporeal, and distinguished it from abstract music, which he perceived as the dominant trend in Western music since the time of Bach. His earliest compositions were small-scale pieces to be intoned to instrumental backing; his later works were large-scale, integrated theater productions in which he expected each of the performers to sing, dance, speak, and play instruments. Ancient Greek theatre and Japanese Noh and kabuki heavily influenced his music theatre.
Disclaimer- Copyright Infringement not intended."I do not own this documentary", or "I don't take credit for the content" BBC" deserve all the credit for this documentary.
- published: 20 Jun 2014
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27:49
HARRY PARTCH - The Dreamer That Remains (Original Film 1972)
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- Duration: 27:49
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"A Study in Loving" and portrait at a time in Harry's life. 1972 Film by Betty Freeman and Stephen Pouliot, conducted by Jack Logan, music direction Danlee Mitc...
"A Study in Loving" and portrait at a time in Harry's life. 1972 Film by Betty Freeman and Stephen Pouliot, conducted by Jack Logan, music direction Danlee Mitchell, sound recordist Mark Hoffman. Filmed on location at San Diego State University, and Encinitas California.
Purchase this on the Innova Enclosure Series at Amazon...so Harry can buy a Mercedes sometime soon.
Harry Partch Resources:
https://www.harrypartch.com/
http://www.corporealmeadows.com/
https://www.innova.mu/composers/harry-partch
http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album;_id=80621
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDSchX00l5IeJClVR_RvzA/videos
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"A Study in Loving" and portrait at a time in Harry's life. 1972 Film by Betty Freeman and Stephen Pouliot, conducted by Jack Logan, music direction Danlee Mitchell, sound recordist Mark Hoffman. Filmed on location at San Diego State University, and Encinitas California.
Purchase this on the Innova Enclosure Series at Amazon...so Harry can buy a Mercedes sometime soon.
Harry Partch Resources:
https://www.harrypartch.com/
http://www.corporealmeadows.com/
https://www.innova.mu/composers/harry-partch
http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album;_id=80621
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDSchX00l5IeJClVR_RvzA/videos
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- published: 20 Sep 2016
- views: 16682
45:54
The Harry Partch Instrumentarium
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- Duration: 45:54
- Uploaded Date: 13 Jul 2017
- views: 66292
UPDATE October 3, 2023:
The Partch residency at UW has concluded. Since 2020, the Partch Instrumentarium has been in storage, with occasional events presented ...
UPDATE October 3, 2023:
The Partch residency at UW has concluded. Since 2020, the Partch Instrumentarium has been in storage, with occasional events presented In the Pacific Northwest by Charles Corey and the Harry Partch Ensemble. For updates, visit www.harrypartch.com and subscribe to the mailing list.
Harry Partch (1901-1974) was an iconoclastic American composer and instrument inventor with a passion for integrating musicians, actors, and dancers in large-scale works of total-theater. He was "seduced into carpentry" by his interest in just intonation and his need to have an orchestra tuned to this system. The instruments are more than just producers of tone, however — each one has an evocative name and dramatic physical presence, and each one puts unique physical demands on the performer. In Partch's book, Genesis of a Music, he writes that the performer of the Marimba Eroica should at times "convey the vision of Ben Hur in his chariot," while a musician playing his Kithara must not "bend at the waist, like an amateur California prune picker," but instead should move with grace and athleticism in a "functional dance."
Charles Corey, curator of the instruments which (were then [edited 2022]) housed at the University of Washington in Seattle, gives a tour of the instruments and the unique sounds they make and iconoclastic musical notations which Partch invented for the performers to be able to play his compositions.
This event was presented on May 30, 2017, by the Pacific Northwest Section of the Audio Engineering Society in the Studio Theater at the Meany Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Washington in Seattle. Sincere thanks to their staffs and management for allowing us to be there.
https://wn.com/The_Harry_Partch_Instrumentarium
UPDATE October 3, 2023:
The Partch residency at UW has concluded. Since 2020, the Partch Instrumentarium has been in storage, with occasional events presented In the Pacific Northwest by Charles Corey and the Harry Partch Ensemble. For updates, visit www.harrypartch.com and subscribe to the mailing list.
Harry Partch (1901-1974) was an iconoclastic American composer and instrument inventor with a passion for integrating musicians, actors, and dancers in large-scale works of total-theater. He was "seduced into carpentry" by his interest in just intonation and his need to have an orchestra tuned to this system. The instruments are more than just producers of tone, however — each one has an evocative name and dramatic physical presence, and each one puts unique physical demands on the performer. In Partch's book, Genesis of a Music, he writes that the performer of the Marimba Eroica should at times "convey the vision of Ben Hur in his chariot," while a musician playing his Kithara must not "bend at the waist, like an amateur California prune picker," but instead should move with grace and athleticism in a "functional dance."
Charles Corey, curator of the instruments which (were then [edited 2022]) housed at the University of Washington in Seattle, gives a tour of the instruments and the unique sounds they make and iconoclastic musical notations which Partch invented for the performers to be able to play his compositions.
This event was presented on May 30, 2017, by the Pacific Northwest Section of the Audio Engineering Society in the Studio Theater at the Meany Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Washington in Seattle. Sincere thanks to their staffs and management for allowing us to be there.
- published: 13 Jul 2017
- views: 66292
1:12:00
HARRY PARTCH - Delusion of the Fury (Original Film 1969)
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- Duration: 1:12:00
- Uploaded Date: 18 Sep 2016
- views: 40404
Harry Partch Resources:
https://www.harrypartch.com/
http://www.corporealmeadows.com/
https://www.innova.mu/composers/harry-partch
http://www.newworldrecords.o...
Harry Partch Resources:
https://www.harrypartch.com/
http://www.corporealmeadows.com/
https://www.innova.mu/composers/harry-partch
http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album;_id=80621
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDSchX00l5IeJClVR_RvzA/videos
Delusion of the Fury: A Ritual of Dream and Delusion, A Film by MadelineTourtelot, Recorded at UCLA Playhouse 1969. Conducted by Danlee Mitchell, musician assembly Emil Richards.
PlayList: The Dreamer That Remains (movie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt2cJEQk9kE
King Oedipus (W.B Yeats Translation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2jHtfk2ljM
Revelation inthe Corthouse Park (Audio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpqQ6R2wiG8
Music Studio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUrDs_xfoQ
Dreamer that Remains (Audio) https://www.youtube.com
U.S.Highball https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy9AtlLrYaI
The Bewitched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XequwzmaKCk/watch?v=uFawetujpc8
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Harry Partch Resources:
https://www.harrypartch.com/
http://www.corporealmeadows.com/
https://www.innova.mu/composers/harry-partch
http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album;_id=80621
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDSchX00l5IeJClVR_RvzA/videos
Delusion of the Fury: A Ritual of Dream and Delusion, A Film by MadelineTourtelot, Recorded at UCLA Playhouse 1969. Conducted by Danlee Mitchell, musician assembly Emil Richards.
PlayList: The Dreamer That Remains (movie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt2cJEQk9kE
King Oedipus (W.B Yeats Translation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2jHtfk2ljM
Revelation inthe Corthouse Park (Audio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpqQ6R2wiG8
Music Studio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUrDs_xfoQ
Dreamer that Remains (Audio) https://www.youtube.com
U.S.Highball https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy9AtlLrYaI
The Bewitched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XequwzmaKCk/watch?v=uFawetujpc8
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- published: 18 Sep 2016
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35:54
And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma (Harry Partch)
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- Duration: 35:54
- Uploaded Date: 12 Aug 2014
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And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma (Harry Partch)
Gate 5 Ensemble; Danlee Mitchell, Harry Partch, Michael Ranta, Emil Richards, Wallace Snow, Stephe...
And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma (Harry Partch)
Gate 5 Ensemble; Danlee Mitchell, Harry Partch, Michael Ranta, Emil Richards, Wallace Snow, Stephen Tosh
from "The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 2"
New World Records 80622-2
http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album;_id=80622
www.newworldrecords.org
©2014 Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma (Harry Partch)
Gate 5 Ensemble; Danlee Mitchell, Harry Partch, Michael Ranta, Emil Richards, Wallace Snow, Stephen Tosh
from "The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 2"
New World Records 80622-2
http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album;_id=80622
www.newworldrecords.org
©2014 Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- published: 12 Aug 2014
- views: 67247
28:57
Harry Partch introducing The Bewitched, WTTW-Chicago, "Imprint", 1957
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- Duration: 28:57
- Uploaded Date: 20 Apr 2022
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Harry Partch (1901-1974) with ensemble members:
Danlee Mitchell
Jack McKenzie
Thomas Gauger
Michael Donzella
WTTW-Chicago, Art Director, Bob Kostka; Producer, ...
Harry Partch (1901-1974) with ensemble members:
Danlee Mitchell
Jack McKenzie
Thomas Gauger
Michael Donzella
WTTW-Chicago, Art Director, Bob Kostka; Producer, Richard Mansfield.
Script for the show is published in Enclosure Three: Harry Partch, by Philip Blackburn
Danlee Mitchell writes (in 2022):
The studio that the 1957 WTTW-Chicago program was held was at the WTTW TV studios
located (as I recall) in the Chicago Museum of Science (or adjacent to), just south of downtown
Chicago. This was after the 1957 THE BEWITCHED being performed on the UI campus
(rehearsals in the Fall of 56), with an immediate runout to St. Louis. Bob Kostka, the producer
of the WTTW show, was somehow acquainted with Harry, but I forget how their connection began.
Why Harry agreed to this WTTW appearance also escapes me. It only involved the Diamond Marimba, the Surrogate Kithara, and the Boo I, playing a pared-down version of a scene from BW, plus a few dancers rendering some abstract choreography. This production was but a minor foray involving Harry and a scaled down version of a scene from BW. But it did give Harry an opportunity to
explain himself verbally.
As far a traveling up to WTTW-Chicago from Champaign-Urbana, as I recall it was accomplished
all in one day——drive up, unload, rehearse, shoot, load up, and drive back. I recall Tom Gauger
and myself driving the instruments used up and back in a university truck. Most probably
Jack McKenzie drove himself, Harry, and Mike Donzella up in a university car. In the end——
yes——it was “rinky-dink”, and presents a very incorrect impression concerning BW, and
Harry’s vision of it.
https://wn.com/Harry_Partch_Introducing_The_Bewitched,_Wttw_Chicago,_Imprint_,_1957
Harry Partch (1901-1974) with ensemble members:
Danlee Mitchell
Jack McKenzie
Thomas Gauger
Michael Donzella
WTTW-Chicago, Art Director, Bob Kostka; Producer, Richard Mansfield.
Script for the show is published in Enclosure Three: Harry Partch, by Philip Blackburn
Danlee Mitchell writes (in 2022):
The studio that the 1957 WTTW-Chicago program was held was at the WTTW TV studios
located (as I recall) in the Chicago Museum of Science (or adjacent to), just south of downtown
Chicago. This was after the 1957 THE BEWITCHED being performed on the UI campus
(rehearsals in the Fall of 56), with an immediate runout to St. Louis. Bob Kostka, the producer
of the WTTW show, was somehow acquainted with Harry, but I forget how their connection began.
Why Harry agreed to this WTTW appearance also escapes me. It only involved the Diamond Marimba, the Surrogate Kithara, and the Boo I, playing a pared-down version of a scene from BW, plus a few dancers rendering some abstract choreography. This production was but a minor foray involving Harry and a scaled down version of a scene from BW. But it did give Harry an opportunity to
explain himself verbally.
As far a traveling up to WTTW-Chicago from Champaign-Urbana, as I recall it was accomplished
all in one day——drive up, unload, rehearse, shoot, load up, and drive back. I recall Tom Gauger
and myself driving the instruments used up and back in a university truck. Most probably
Jack McKenzie drove himself, Harry, and Mike Donzella up in a university car. In the end——
yes——it was “rinky-dink”, and presents a very incorrect impression concerning BW, and
Harry’s vision of it.
- published: 20 Apr 2022
- views: 2370
17:54
HARRY PARTCH - Music Studio (Documentary)
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- Duration: 17:54
- Uploaded Date: 25 Sep 2016
- views: 6536
Harry Partch Resources:
https://www.harrypartch.com/
http://www.corporealmeadows.com/
https://www.innova.mu/composers/harry-partch
http://www.newworldrecords.o...
Harry Partch Resources:
https://www.harrypartch.com/
http://www.corporealmeadows.com/
https://www.innova.mu/composers/harry-partch
http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album;_id=80621
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDSchX00l5IeJClVR_RvzA/videos
A documentary about Partch's hand-built microtonal instruments. Film by Madeline Tourtelot 1958. Purchase this on the Innova Enclosure Series at Amazon...so Harry can take everyone out for ice cream sometime soon.
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Harry Partch Resources:
https://www.harrypartch.com/
http://www.corporealmeadows.com/
https://www.innova.mu/composers/harry-partch
http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album;_id=80621
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDSchX00l5IeJClVR_RvzA/videos
A documentary about Partch's hand-built microtonal instruments. Film by Madeline Tourtelot 1958. Purchase this on the Innova Enclosure Series at Amazon...so Harry can take everyone out for ice cream sometime soon.
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- published: 25 Sep 2016
- views: 6536
43:26
Harry Partch - The World Of Harry Partch (1969) FULL ALBUM
Columbia Masterworks – MS 7207 (US, 1969)
https://www.discogs.com/Harry-Partch-The-World-...
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Harry Partch - The World Of Harry Partch (1969) FULL ALBUM
Harry Partch - The World Of Harry Partch (1969) FULL ALBUM
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Columbia Masterworks – MS 7207 (US, 1969)
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00:00 A1. Daphne Of The Dunes
17:35 B1. Barstow - Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions From A Highway Railing At Barstow, California
27:00 B2. Castor & Pollux - A Dance For The Twin Rhythms Of Gemini From Plectra & Percussion Dances
Supervisor, Composer, Viola, Voices - Harry Partch
Conductor, Performer - Danlee Mitchell
Producer - John McClure
Performed by - John McAllister, Michael Ranta, Linda Schell, Frank Berberich, Gary Coleman, Dean Drummond, Richard Lapore, Robert McCormick, Todd Miller, Emil Richards
Voices - John Stannard
16:36
Partch performs Castor & Pollux by Harry Partch
PRISM Quartet, Inc.
Presents
COLOR THEORY
PRISM Quartet and Partch (East Coast Debut)
J...
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Partch performs Castor & Pollux by Harry Partch
Partch performs Castor & Pollux by Harry Partch
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PRISM Quartet, Inc.
Presents
COLOR THEORY
PRISM Quartet and Partch (East Coast Debut)
June 12, 2016
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave • Brooklyn, NY
Partch
Erin Barnes: diamond marimba
Alison Bjorkedal: kithara, "Castor" canon
Matt Cook: surrogate kithara, "Pollux" canon
David Johnson: cloud chamber bowls, chromelodeon
John Schneider: harmonic "Castor" canon, adapted viola
Nick Terry: bass marimba, cloud chamber bowls
T. J. Troy: bass marimba
CASTOR & POLLUX (1952) by Harry Partch (1901 – 1974)
A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini
CASTOR, Leda and the Swan
1. Insemination
2. Conception
3. Incubation
4. Delivery
POLLUX, Leda and the Swan
1. Insemination
2. Conception
3. Incubation
4. Delivery
Perhaps the only ‘triple exposure’ in music history, Partch called this infectious dance music, “A tribute to the twin stars of luck. Atonal-dynamic dithyramb. A ritualistic ecstasy…In Castor each of the first three sections requires pairs of different instruments and dancers, all three of which have identical measure patterns, but not necessarily the same rhythms. Number 4, then, is the total of these, played and danced simultaneously. Thus, three different compositions become one composition—the “Delivery,” the logical result and the sum total of the factors that make it inevitable. Pollux follows the same plan: Numbers 5, 6, and 7 combined to result in Number 8.”
Harry Partch (1901-1974) is the iconoclastic American Maverick composer who, between 1930 and 1972, created one of the most amazing bodies of sensually alluring and emotionally powerful music of the 20th century. Partch wrote music drama, dance theater, multi-media extravaganzas, vocal music, and chamber music—all to be performed on the extraordinary orchestra of instruments that he designed and built himself. The Great Depression forced Partch to spend many years as a transient. It was during these years that he collected the texts and experiences that would later form the basis for The Wayward, a collection of musical compositions based on the spoken and written words of hobos and other characters.
To obtain COLOR THEORY featuring PRISM Quartet and Partch, please visit https://www.prismquartet.com/recording/color-theory/
10:22
Harry Partch: SONATA DEMENTIA (1950)
Harry Partch’s first extended abstract composition was initially called Tonality Flux, the...
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Harry Partch: SONATA DEMENTIA (1950)
Harry Partch: SONATA DEMENTIA (1950)
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Harry Partch’s first extended abstract composition was initially called Tonality Flux, the term he used for his brand of microtonal modulation. Its completion had to await the construction of the Bass Marimba & the Hypobass, and by the time the virtuosic “Mumbo-Jumbo…” vocal part had been added, it was renamed Sonata Dementia (1950), perhaps reflecting the psychological stress the composer felt in his isolation in Gualala, on the coast of Northern California. It was left unperformed until 1952 when added revisions were completed at Mills College, and it was presented as Ring Around The Moon. When recorded as such, the composer called it, “A satire on the world of singers and singing, music and dance; on concerts and concert audiences, where the occasional perception of an American word is an odd kind of shock. Also a satire on the world in general, on whimsy and caprice, on music in 43 tones to the octave, on people who conceive such things, on grand flourishes that lead to nothing, on satyrs, or on nothing.” L.A.'s PARTCH premiered the original version at REDCAT in 2006 as part of MicroFest. The premiere recording was released in 2019 on Bridge Records [CD 9525] "Sonata Dementia."
59:17
Harry Partch Documentary-The Outsider
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 -- September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist...
published: 20 Jun 2014
Harry Partch Documentary-The Outsider
Harry Partch Documentary-The Outsider
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Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 -- September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments. He was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales. He built custom-made instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions, and described his theory and practice in his book Genesis of a Music (1947 and 1974).
Partch composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, derived from the natural Harmonic series; these scales allowed for more tones of smaller intervals than in the standard Western tuning, which uses twelve equal intervals to the octave. Partch divided the octave into 43 unequal tones. To play this music, he built a large number of unique instruments, with names such as the Chromelodeon, the Quadrangularis Reversum, and the Zymo-Xyl. Partch described his own music as corporeal, and distinguished it from abstract music, which he perceived as the dominant trend in Western music since the time of Bach. His earliest compositions were small-scale pieces to be intoned to instrumental backing; his later works were large-scale, integrated theater productions in which he expected each of the performers to sing, dance, speak, and play instruments. Ancient Greek theatre and Japanese Noh and kabuki heavily influenced his music theatre.
Disclaimer- Copyright Infringement not intended."I do not own this documentary", or "I don't take credit for the content" BBC" deserve all the credit for this documentary.
27:49
HARRY PARTCH - The Dreamer That Remains (Original Film 1972)
"A Study in Loving" and portrait at a time in Harry's life. 1972 Film by Betty Freeman and...
published: 20 Sep 2016
HARRY PARTCH - The Dreamer That Remains (Original Film 1972)
HARRY PARTCH - The Dreamer That Remains (Original Film 1972)
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"A Study in Loving" and portrait at a time in Harry's life. 1972 Film by Betty Freeman and Stephen Pouliot, conducted by Jack Logan, music direction Danlee Mitchell, sound recordist Mark Hoffman. Filmed on location at San Diego State University, and Encinitas California.
Purchase this on the Innova Enclosure Series at Amazon...so Harry can buy a Mercedes sometime soon.
Harry Partch Resources:
https://www.harrypartch.com/
http://www.corporealmeadows.com/
https://www.innova.mu/composers/harry-partch
http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album;_id=80621
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDSchX00l5IeJClVR_RvzA/videos
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45:54
The Harry Partch Instrumentarium
UPDATE October 3, 2023:
The Partch residency at UW has concluded. Since 2020, the Partch ...
published: 13 Jul 2017
The Harry Partch Instrumentarium
The Harry Partch Instrumentarium
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- published: 13 Jul 2017
- views: 66292
UPDATE October 3, 2023:
The Partch residency at UW has concluded. Since 2020, the Partch Instrumentarium has been in storage, with occasional events presented In the Pacific Northwest by Charles Corey and the Harry Partch Ensemble. For updates, visit www.harrypartch.com and subscribe to the mailing list.
Harry Partch (1901-1974) was an iconoclastic American composer and instrument inventor with a passion for integrating musicians, actors, and dancers in large-scale works of total-theater. He was "seduced into carpentry" by his interest in just intonation and his need to have an orchestra tuned to this system. The instruments are more than just producers of tone, however — each one has an evocative name and dramatic physical presence, and each one puts unique physical demands on the performer. In Partch's book, Genesis of a Music, he writes that the performer of the Marimba Eroica should at times "convey the vision of Ben Hur in his chariot," while a musician playing his Kithara must not "bend at the waist, like an amateur California prune picker," but instead should move with grace and athleticism in a "functional dance."
Charles Corey, curator of the instruments which (were then [edited 2022]) housed at the University of Washington in Seattle, gives a tour of the instruments and the unique sounds they make and iconoclastic musical notations which Partch invented for the performers to be able to play his compositions.
This event was presented on May 30, 2017, by the Pacific Northwest Section of the Audio Engineering Society in the Studio Theater at the Meany Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Washington in Seattle. Sincere thanks to their staffs and management for allowing us to be there.
1:12:00
HARRY PARTCH - Delusion of the Fury (Original Film 1969)
Harry Partch Resources:
https://www.harrypartch.com/
http://www.corporealmeadows.com/
htt...
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HARRY PARTCH - Delusion of the Fury (Original Film 1969)
HARRY PARTCH - Delusion of the Fury (Original Film 1969)
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Harry Partch Resources:
https://www.harrypartch.com/
http://www.corporealmeadows.com/
https://www.innova.mu/composers/harry-partch
http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album;_id=80621
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDSchX00l5IeJClVR_RvzA/videos
Delusion of the Fury: A Ritual of Dream and Delusion, A Film by MadelineTourtelot, Recorded at UCLA Playhouse 1969. Conducted by Danlee Mitchell, musician assembly Emil Richards.
PlayList: The Dreamer That Remains (movie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt2cJEQk9kE
King Oedipus (W.B Yeats Translation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2jHtfk2ljM
Revelation inthe Corthouse Park (Audio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpqQ6R2wiG8
Music Studio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUrDs_xfoQ
Dreamer that Remains (Audio) https://www.youtube.com
U.S.Highball https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy9AtlLrYaI
The Bewitched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XequwzmaKCk/watch?v=uFawetujpc8
Purchase this on the Innova Enclosure Series at Amazon ... so Harry can take everyone out for ice cream sometime soon.
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35:54
And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma (Harry Partch)
And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma (Harry Partch)
Gate 5 Ensemble; Danlee Mitc...
published: 12 Aug 2014
And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma (Harry Partch)
And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma (Harry Partch)
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And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma (Harry Partch)
Gate 5 Ensemble; Danlee Mitchell, Harry Partch, Michael Ranta, Emil Richards, Wallace Snow, Stephen Tosh
from "The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 2"
New World Records 80622-2
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Harry Partch introducing The Bewitched, WTTW-Chicago, "Imprint", 1957
Harry Partch (1901-1974) with ensemble members:
Danlee Mitchell
Jack McKenzie
Thomas Gauge...
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Harry Partch introducing The Bewitched, WTTW-Chicago, "Imprint", 1957
Harry Partch introducing The Bewitched, WTTW-Chicago, "Imprint", 1957
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Harry Partch (1901-1974) with ensemble members:
Danlee Mitchell
Jack McKenzie
Thomas Gauger
Michael Donzella
WTTW-Chicago, Art Director, Bob Kostka; Producer, Richard Mansfield.
Script for the show is published in Enclosure Three: Harry Partch, by Philip Blackburn
Danlee Mitchell writes (in 2022):
The studio that the 1957 WTTW-Chicago program was held was at the WTTW TV studios
located (as I recall) in the Chicago Museum of Science (or adjacent to), just south of downtown
Chicago. This was after the 1957 THE BEWITCHED being performed on the UI campus
(rehearsals in the Fall of 56), with an immediate runout to St. Louis. Bob Kostka, the producer
of the WTTW show, was somehow acquainted with Harry, but I forget how their connection began.
Why Harry agreed to this WTTW appearance also escapes me. It only involved the Diamond Marimba, the Surrogate Kithara, and the Boo I, playing a pared-down version of a scene from BW, plus a few dancers rendering some abstract choreography. This production was but a minor foray involving Harry and a scaled down version of a scene from BW. But it did give Harry an opportunity to
explain himself verbally.
As far a traveling up to WTTW-Chicago from Champaign-Urbana, as I recall it was accomplished
all in one day——drive up, unload, rehearse, shoot, load up, and drive back. I recall Tom Gauger
and myself driving the instruments used up and back in a university truck. Most probably
Jack McKenzie drove himself, Harry, and Mike Donzella up in a university car. In the end——
yes——it was “rinky-dink”, and presents a very incorrect impression concerning BW, and
Harry’s vision of it.
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HARRY PARTCH - Music Studio (Documentary)
Harry Partch Resources:
https://www.harrypartch.com/
http://www.corporealmeadows.com/
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HARRY PARTCH - Music Studio (Documentary)
HARRY PARTCH - Music Studio (Documentary)
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Harry Partch Resources:
https://www.harrypartch.com/
http://www.corporealmeadows.com/
https://www.innova.mu/composers/harry-partch
http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album;_id=80621
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDSchX00l5IeJClVR_RvzA/videos
A documentary about Partch's hand-built microtonal instruments. Film by Madeline Tourtelot 1958. Purchase this on the Innova Enclosure Series at Amazon...so Harry can take everyone out for ice cream sometime soon.
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Harry Partch
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales. He built custom-made instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions, and described his theory and practice in his book Genesis of a Music (1947).
Partch composed with scales dividing the octave into 43 unequal tones derived from the natural harmonic series; these scales allowed for more tones of smaller intervals than in standard Western tuning, which uses twelve equal intervals to the octave. To play his music, Partch built a large number of unique instruments, with such names as the Chromelodeon, the Quadrangularis Reversum, and the Zymo-Xyl. Partch described his music as corporeal, and distinguished it from abstract music, which he perceived as the dominant trend in Western music since the time of Bach. His earliest compositions were small-scale pieces to be intoned to instrumental backing; his later works were large-scale, integrated theater productions in which he expected each of the performers to sing, dance, speak, and play instruments. Ancient Greek theatre and Japanese Noh and kabuki heavily influenced his music theatre.
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