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    Harry Partch

    Harry Partch

    518 songs
    Total 29 albums
    The World of Harry Partch Album Cover

    The World of Harry Partch

    1969
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    Daphne Of the Dunes17:28
    Barstow: Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions From a Highway Railing at Barstow, California9:20
    Castor & Pollux: A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini: From Plectra & Percussion Dances16:19
    The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 4: The Bewitched Album Cover

    The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 4: The Bewitched

    1997
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    The Bewitched - Prologue: The Lost Musicians Mix Magic18:08
    The Bewitched - Scene1: Three Undergrads Become Transfigured in a Hong Kong Music Hall5:30
    The Bewitched - Scene 2: Exercises in Harmony and Counterpoint Are Tried in a Court of Ancient Ritual5:07
    The Bewitched - Scene 3: The Romancing of a Pathological Liar Comes to an Inspired End5:33
    The Bewitched - Scene 4: A Soul Tormented by Contemporary Music Finds a Humanizing Alchemy5:39
    The Bewitched - Scene 5: Visions Fill the Eyes of a Defeated Basketball Team in the Shower Room4:20
    The Bewitched - Scene 6: Euphoria Ascends a Sausilito Staircase4:17
    The Bewitched - Scene 7: Two Detectives on the Trail of a Tricky Culprit Turn in Their Badges5:32
    The Bewitched - Scene 8: A Court in Its Own Contempt Rises to a Motherly Apothesis5:27
    The Bewitched - Scene 9: A Lost Political Soul Finds Himselfamong the Voteless Women of Paradise5:57
    Scene 10: The Cognoscenti Are Plunged Into a Demonic Descent While at Cocktails9:18

    And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma

    1966
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    Verses 1 to 17-:--
    Verses 17 to 34-:--
    The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 3 Album Cover

    The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 3

    2005
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    The Dreamer That Remains10:27
    Rotate the Body in All Its Planes - Ballad for Gymnasts8:51
    Windsong11:36
    The Opening Prologue, and the Second Prologue, in Which the Instruments Attack the Producer2:59
    Water Criers and Lead-In Lines, O What Could He Do but Pick Her Up?4:04
    Water Criers, and Lead-In Lines, Witch for Water. The Aldermen's Fugue on No. Wanda the Water Witch5:59
    Santa Mystiana the Beautiful2:42
    Water Criers. Visitors From Strange and Foreign Places: The Singer From Spoleto, and an Alabama Mockingbird - Dear Old Alabama2:02
    We Really Love Each Other. In 43 Whines to the Octave1:41
    Water Criers. The Baseball Game Is Called on Account of Rain!3:17
    To Hell With the Game! Rain! Rain! The Highest Goodness Is Like Water2:26
    Opening Epilogue (After Three Days of Rain). Ghosts, Undele, Oomph! (The Indian Ghosts dance Over Clarence's Body and Play on Liquor Bottles)2:56
    Water Criers. Intervening Dialog. We'll Sue You for a Million!3:03
    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.4:55
    Eighth Epilogue - The Producer Finally Silences the Instruments. Final Epilogue: "The Highest Goodness Is Like Water."1:48
    Plectra and Percussion Dances (Performed June 9, 2013) Album Cover

    Plectra and Percussion Dances (Performed June 9, 2013)

    2014
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    Castor & Pollux: Castor: Leda & the Swan (Insemination)1:52
    Castor & Pollux: Castor: Conception1:50
    Castor & Pollux: Castor: Incubation1:51
    Castor & Pollux: Castor: Chorus of Delivery from the Egg1:50
    Castor & Pollux: Pollux: Leda & the Swan (Insemination)1:50
    Castor & Pollux: Pollux: Conception1:51
    Castor & Pollux: Pollux: Incubation1:51
    Castor & Pollux: Pollux: Chorus of Delivery from the Egg2:06
    Ring Around the Moon: First Phase: “Ring Around the Moon”2:55
    Ring Around the Moon: Second Phase: “One, two, three, four…”2:14
    Ring Around the Moon: Third Phase: “Shake hands now boys…”2:48
    Ring Around the Moon: Fourth Phase: “Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus…“1:29
    Even Wild Horses: Act I: Scene 1, A Decent and Honorable Mistake3:06
    Even Wild Horses: Act I: Scene 2, Rhythm of the Womb, Melody of the Grave3:01
    Even Wild Horses: Act I: Scene 3, Happy Birthday to You!2:55
    Even Wild Horses: Act II: Scene 1, “Nor These Lips Upon Your Eyes”3:24
    Even Wild Horses: Act II: Scene 2, “Hunger, Thirst, Shout, Dance!”2:26
    Even Wild Horses: Act II: Scene 3, “Land of Darkness and of Whirlwinds”3:37
    Even Wild Horses: Act III: Scene 1, “Had I Not Once a Lovely Youth?”3:00
    Even Wild Horses: Act III: Scene 2, “Let Us Contemplate Undazed the Endless Reaches of My Innocence”2:37
    Partch’s 1953 introduction to the live broadcast of the Premiere on KPFA-FM (Berkeley, California)7:11
    Bitter Music (Music of Harry Partch, Vol. 1) Album Cover

    Bitter Music (Music of Harry Partch, Vol. 1)

    2011
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    Disc 1
    Preface7:26
    June 11, 1935 - Santa Rosa, California14:41
    June 15 - Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta9:46
    June 24 - Today is my birthday…6:06
    London, October 19343:35
    “By the Rivers of Babylon”3:25
    I draw my last bow, and there is silence…11:58
    Wimbleton, London, March 193513:05
    Disc 2
    Harrington Ranch, June 24, 193513:37
    July 20 - Heading north, between Sacramento and Redding7:42
    July 25 - Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington11:42
    August 5 - Toledo8:47
    August 11 - SERA Camp, Ingot7:00
    September 1 - Cisco13:02
    Disc 3
    October 22 - Nearing Monterey8:16
    “Letter from Hobo Pablo”3:29
    Near Lodi I cut the huge Tokays…6:09
    October 24 - Leaving Big Sur9:44
    October 30 - Big Creek10:31
    November 15 - Leaving Santa Barbara9:45
    December 7, 1935 - Night. Four black walls -8:07
    February 1, 1936 - San Bernardino4:37
    Postlude - Harry Partch on Bitter Music - Encinitas, 19693:51
    Masterworks of the 20th Century Album Cover

    Masterworks of the 20th Century

    2015
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    Disc 1
    Le marteau sans maître: I. Avant l'Artisanat furieux1:49
    Le marteau sans maître: II. Commentaire I de Bourreaux de solitude4:07
    Le marteau sans maître: III. L'Artisanat furieux2:30
    Le marteau sans maître: IV. Commentaire II de Bourreaux de solitude4:37
    Le marteau sans maître: V. Bel édifice et les pressentiments I3:55
    Le marteau sans maître: VI. Bourreaux de solitude4:15
    Le marteau sans maître: VII. Après l'Artisanat furieux1:05
    Le Marteau sans Maître: VIII. Commentaire III de Bourreaux de solitude5:48
    Le marteau sans maître: IX. Bel édifice et les pressentiments II8:05
    Livre pour cordes: 1a Variation6:37
    Livre pour cordes: 1b Mouvement4:01
    Disc 2
    Asterism for Piano and Orchestra11:45
    Requiem for String Orchestra7:47
    Green (November Steps II) for Orchestra5:41
    The Dorian Horizon for 17 Strings9:05
    Disc 3
    Agon20:36
    7 Studies on Themes of Paul Klee for Orchestra: Antique Harmonies2:22
    7 Studies on Themes of Paul Klee for Orchestra: Abstract Trio1:39
    7 Studies on Themes of Paul Klee for Orchestra: Little Blue Devil3:03
    7 Studies on Themes of Paul Klee for Orchestra: The Twittering Machine2:07
    7 Studies on Themes of Paul Klee for Orchestra: 5. Arab Village6:51
    7 Studies on Themes of Paul Klee for Orchestra: An Eerie Moment2:03
    7 Studies on Themes of Paul Klee for Orchestra: Pastorale2:55
    Disc 4
    Piano Sonata no. 2 "Concord, Mass., 1840-60": I. Emerson13:36
    Piano Sonata no. 2 "Concord, Mass., 1840-60": II. Hawthorne10:06
    Piano Sonata no. 2 "Concord, Mass., 1840-60": III. The Alcotts4:41
    Piano Sonata no. 2 "Concord, Mass., 1840-60": IV. Thoreau9:43
    Emerson (end of exposition)2:01
    Emerson (most of recapitulation)4:00
    Hawthorne (fragment)0:17
    The Alcotts (complete)4:59
    Emerson Transcription No. 1 with Interpolated Improvisations5:19
    Emerson Transcription No. 3 with Interpolated Improvisations2:33
    Disc 5
    Voice of the Whale (Vox Balaenae) for Three Masked Players20:18
    Night of the Four Moons: I. La luna está muerta, muerta2:38
    Night of the Four Moons: II. Cuando sale la luna3:36
    Night of the Four Moons: III. Otro Adán oscuro está soñando2:53
    Night of the Four Moons: IV. ¡Huye luna, luna, luna !8:26
    Makrokosmos, Vol. II - Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac for Amplified Piano: Part 1, I. Morning Music (Genesis II)2:32
    Makrokosmos, Vol. II - Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac for Amplified Piano: Part 1, II. The Mystic Chord2:26
    Makrokosmos, Vol. II - Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac for Amplified Piano: Part 1, III. Rain-Death Variations1:34
    Makrokosmos, Vol. II - Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac for Amplified Piano: Part 1, IV. Twin Suns (Doppelgänger aus der Ewigkeit)3:32
    Makrokosmos, Vol. II - Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac for Amplified Piano: Part 2, V. Ghost Nocturne for the Druids of Stonehenge (Night-Spell II)3:04
    Makrokosmos, Vol. II - Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac for Amplified Piano: Part 2, VI. Gargoyles1:10
    Makrokosmos, Vol. II - Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac for Amplified Piano: Part 2, VII. Tora! Tora! Tora! (Cadenza Apocalittica)1:33
    Makrokosmos, Vol. II - Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac for Amplified Piano: Part 2, VIII. A Prophecy of Nostradamus2:29
    Makrokosmos, Vol. II - Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac for Amplified Piano: Part 3, IX. Cosmic Wind2:20
    Makrokosmos, Vol. II - Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac for Amplified Piano: Part 3, X. Voices from "Corona Borealis"3:23
    Makrokosmos, Vol. II - Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac for Amplified Piano: Part 3, XI. Litany of the Galactic Bells2:34
    Makrokosmos, Vol. II - Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac for Amplified Piano: Part 3, XII. Agnus Dei4:05
    Disc 6
    Daphne of the Dunes17:28
    Barstow - Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California9:20
    Castor & Pollux - A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini from Plectra & Percussion Dances:16:19
    Partch in Prologue, Adapted Viola3:55
    Chromelodeon I2:29
    Kithara I1:08
    Castor & Pollux (Harmonic Canon II)0:48
    Diamond Marimba1:28
    Bass Marimba1:21
    Cloud-Chamber Bowls1:50
    Spoils of War1:57
    Surrogate Kithara1:24
    Kithara II1:20
    Boo1:55
    Harmonic Canon I1:15
    Zymo-Xyl1:43
    Mazda Marimba1:35
    Gourd Tree & Cone Gong1:49
    Hand Instruments, Partch in Epilogue3:04
    Disc 7
    Sound Patterns4:00
    North American Time Capsule 196710:18
    Solos for Voice 212:52
    She Was a Visitor5:46
    Extended Voices11:05
    Chorus and Instruments II5:05
    Christian Wolff in Cambridge3:48
    Disc 8
    Akrata11:59
    Syzygy24:18
    Zyklus for a percussionist (no. 9) :11:39
    Fontana Mix - Feed10:19
    Lux Aeterna for 5 Masked Musicians13:25
    Disc 9
    Stereo Electronic Music No. 110:28
    Leiyla and the Poet5:18
    Prologue: Enuma Elish (from 3 scenes from The Creation)8:09
    Composition for Synthesizer10:36
    Electronic Study No. 15:50
    Gargoyles9:21
    Ensembles for Synthesizer10:41
    Disc 10
    Sonatine for Flute and Piano13:03
    Interpolation: Mobile for Flute (1, 2 and 3)4:53
    Concerto no. 1 for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra18:52
    Y Su Sangre Ya Viene Cantando16:22
    Serenade I for Flute and 14 Instruments10:42

    Microtonal Works by Partch, Cage, Labarbara, Drummond

    1990
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    Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales4:00
    Then or Never8:47
    Haikai for Flute and Zoomoozophone8:09
    Silent Scroll-:--
    Columbus10:21
    Incredible Time (to Live and Die)-:--
    Sonata Dementia Album Cover

    Sonata Dementia

    2019
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    Ulysses at the Edge of the World (A Minor Adventure in Rhythm)6:20
    12 Intrusions: No. 1, Study on Olympus' Pentatonic1:16
    12 Intrusions: No. 2, Study on Archytas' Enharmonic2:28
    12 Intrusions: No. 3, The Rose1:51
    12 Intrusions: No. 4, The Crane1:46
    12 Intrusions: No. 5, The Waterfall1:10
    12 Intrusions: No. 6, The Wind1:52
    12 Intrusions: No. 7, The Street3:15
    12 Intrusions: No. 8, The Letter2:53
    12 Intrusions: No. 9, Lover2:22
    12 Intrusions: No. 10, Soldiers - War - Another War2:53
    12 Intrusions: No. 11, Vanity0:49
    12 Intrusions: No. 12, Cloud Chamber Music4:03
    Windsong: I. Narration1:13
    Windsong: II. Windsong17:50
    Sonata Dementia: I. Abstraction & Delusion3:04
    Sonata Dementia: II. Scherzo Schizophrenia2:05
    Sonata Dementia: III. Allegro Paranoia4:12
    Canción de los Muchachos1:47
    The Wayward, Pt. 1 "8 Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California": Introduction2:45
    The Wayward, Pt. 1 "8 Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California": No. 1, Barstow9:02

    Plectra and Percussion Dances

    1953
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    Castor & Pollux - A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini-:--
    Ring Around The Moon - A Dance for Here and Now-:--
    Even Wild Horses - Dance Music for an Absent Drama-:--