tracks

I Am Harry Partch
By The Rivers Of Babylon (137th Psalm)
Texts And Music: A Wagnerian Wrestling Match
A Dream
An Encounter In The Field
On Hearing The Flute
The Intruder
I Am A Peach Tree
With A Man Of Leisure
A Midnight Farewell
Before The Cask Of Wine
On The Ship Of Spicewood
By The Great Wall
The Use Of English In Serious Music
Barstow — Eight Hitch-hikers' Inscriptions From A Highway Railing At Barstow, California
San Francisco — Newsboys Cries
Life Is Too Precious To Spend It With Important People
U.S. Highball — A Musical Account Of Slim's Transcontinental Hobo Trip
While My Heart Keeps Beating Time
San Francisco II
I'm Going To Start Right Off By Giving You Some Sounds…
Isobel
Annah The Allmaziful
Dark Brother
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
Close Degrees
True And Tempered Triads
Resolutions From P. 186 Of Genesis Of A Music; Resolution P. 187; "Familiar" Resolution
Fox-Strangeways Resolutions
Tonal Flux From Genesis, P. 188; Tonal Flux From The Letter And Third Chorus Of Oedipus; Another From P. 188; Tonal Flux From Antiphony Of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…"
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 Hearts Are Corrupted, Out Talent Wasted, And Our Hope Gone."; "Have We Not Known Triumph, Joy, And Glory On This Earth?"
Melodic Subtleties From The Street, "Down Maxwell Street, Where The Prostitutes Stand In The Gloom…", U.S. Highball, "Back To The Freights For You, Boy."
Melodic Subtleties From The Bewitched
Instrumental Tunings: Harmonic Canon I As Iin Revelation; Petals; Chromelodeon Two Sets Of Reeds; Revelation
Dissonances And Consonance: Coda To Oedipus; Coda To Revelation
June 11, 1935 — Santa Rosa, California
June 12 — Federal Shelter, Stockton
June 13
June 14
June 16 — Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta
June 17
July 4
July 14
July 16
July 19
July 20 — Heading North, Between Sacramento And Redding
July 24 — Federal Shelter, Portland
July 25 — Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington
July 27
July 29
July 30
August 7 — Between Grants Pass And Klamath Falls, Oregon
August 15
October 22 — Nearing Monterey
October 24 — Leaving Big Sur
October 25 — Near Slate's Hot Springs
October 26
October 27
October 28
October 29
October 30 — Big Creek
November 12 — Santa Barbara
November 14
November 15 — Leaving Santa Barbara
November 16 — Ojai
November 17
November 23 — Los Angeles
November 28
December 4
December, 1935
February 1, 1936 — San Bernardino
Yankee Doodle Birds
Y.D. Fantasy — On The Words Of An Early American Tune
O Frabjous Day!
You Are Charged With Being Guilty. Are You Drunk Or Not?
Ring Around The Moon — A Dance Fantasm For Here And Now
Bless This Home
Harry's Wake

notes

Subtitle: "Historic Speech-Music Recordings From The Harry Partch Archives"

Includes 32-page booklet.

Track 1-1 is the opening statement of the 78 r.p.m. recording of Intrusions recorded in Gualala in 1950-51, and issued by Lauriston Marshall.
Track 1-3 is the introduction to Oedipus broadcast, KPFA-Berkeley, July 16, 1954.
Tracks 1-14, 1-17 and 4-1 are excepts from an interview with Eugene Paul, May 30, 1970.
Track 1-19 recorded August 1995.
Track 1-20 recorded in concert at Südwestfunk 3, Karlsruhe, Germany, January 24, 1990.
Track 2-1 is the introduction to a lecture-demonstration at the University of California, Los Angeles, May 8, 1966.
Track 2-2 recorded in New York City Mar 6-11, 1945.
Track 2-3 recorded in New York City Mar 2-4, 1945.
Tracks 2-5 to 2-23 are a wood-shedding introduction to Just Intonation, with examples, recorded on May 29, 1967 for an April, 1967 presentation at an American Society of University Composers symposium, "Microtonal Music in the United States."
Tracks 3-1 to 3-36 recorded in live performance by Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Broadcast Music Melbourne, Australia, January 23, 1992.
Track 4-2 recorded in 1945.
Track 4-3 recorded on a Silvertone toy tape recorder from Sears Roebuck.
Track 4-4 is an introduction to Plectra and Percussion Dances, KPFA-Berkeley, November 19, 1953.
Track 4-5 is a live performance at International House, KPFA-Berkeley, November 19, 1953.
Track 4-6 recorded at the University of Illinois, 1961.
Track 4-7 was compiled from tapes made during Harry Partch's memorial meeting (1974) and one day visiting the Mitchell's home (1966).

credits

Engineer – Garry Havrillay (tracks: 3-1 to 3-36)
Piano – Sheila Guymer (tracks: 3-1 to 3-36)
Producer – Lydia Warren (tracks: 3-1 to 3-36), Dr. Philip Blackburn,
Recorded By – Warren Gilson (tracks: 1-2, 1-4 to 1-13, 1-15, 1-16, 1-18, 2-2 to 2-4, 4-2)
Viola [Adapated] – Harry Partch (tracks: 1-2, 1-4 to 1-13, 1-16, 2-4, 4-6)
Voice – Harry Partch (tracks: 1-4 to 1-13, 1-15, 1-16, 1-18, 4-6), Warren Burt (tracks: 3-1 to 3-36), William Wendlandt (tracks: 1-4 to 1-13, 1-15)

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