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    Harry Partch

    Harry Partch

    518 songs
    Total 29 albums

    U.S. Highball

    1946
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    Disc 1
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    Harry Partch, 1942

    2021
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    Introduction. True & Tempered Intervals9:08
    Scales2:14
    Progressions Within One Octave4:26
    Setting Texts7:12
    2 Psalms: No. 1. The Lord Is My Shepherd2:46
    Intro to "A Dream"2:51
    17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 10b. A Dream5:02
    17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 2. On the City Street0:31
    17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 3. An Encounter in the Field0:44
    17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 7. The Night of Sorrow1:37
    17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 13. With a Man of Leisure1:14
    17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 14. A Midnight Farewell1:20
    Intro to "I Am a Peach Tree"0:47
    17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 17. I Am a Peach Tree2:33
    Intro "Barstow"3:18
    Barstow9:07
    Before1:09
    After1:09
    Harry Partch: The Bewitched / Taylor Brook: Block Album Cover

    Harry Partch: The Bewitched / Taylor Brook: Block

    2022
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    The Bewitched: Prologue - The Lost Musicians Mix Magic18:21
    The Bewitched: Scene 1 - Three Undergrads Become Transfigured In A Hong Kong Music Hall5:34
    The Bewitched: Scene 2 - Exercises In Harmony And Counterpoint Are Tried in a Court of Ancient Ritual5:11
    The Bewitched: Scene 3 - The Romancing Of A Pathological Liar Comes To An Inspired End5:38
    The Bewitched: Scene 4 - A Soul Tormented By Contemporary Music Finds A Humanizing Alchemy5:43
    The Bewitched: Scene 5 - Visions Fill The Eyes Of A Defeated Basketball Team in the Shower Room4:22
    The Bewitched: Scene 6 - Euphoria Ascends A Sausilito Staircase4:20
    The Bewitched: Scene 7 - Two Detectives On The Trail Of A Tricky Culprit Turn5:34
    The Bewitched: Scene 8 - A Court In Its Own Contempt Rises To A Motherly Apotheosis5:31
    The Bewitched: Scene 9 - A Lost Political Soul Finds Himself Among The Voteless Women of Paradise6:00
    The Bewitched: Scene 10 - The Cognoscenti Are Plunged into a Demonic Descent While at Cocktails7:16
    The Bewitched: Epilogue2:06
    Block10:56

    Enclosure Two

    1995
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    Disc 1
    I Am Harry Partch0:24
    By The Rivers Of Babylon (137th Psalm)3:25
    Texts And Music: A Wagnerian Wrestling Match1:21
    A Dream4:33
    An Encounter In The Field0:48
    On Hearing The Flute0:59
    The Intruder1:09
    I Am A Peach Tree1:25
    With A Man Of Leisure0:44
    A Midnight Farewell1:16
    Before The Cask Of Wine2:10
    On The Ship Of Spicewood2:31
    By The Great Wall1:55
    The Use Of English In Serious Music0:57
    Barstow — Eight Hitch-hikers' Inscriptions From A Highway Railing At Barstow, California8:26
    San Francisco — Newsboys Cries2:29
    Life Is Too Precious To Spend It With Important People1:29
    U.S. Highball — A Musical Account Of Slim's Transcontinental Hobo Trip26:45
    While My Heart Keeps Beating Time1:36
    San Francisco II2:50
    Disc 2
    I'm Going To Start Right Off By Giving You Some Sounds…0:29
    Isobel2:52
    Annah The Allmaziful2:21
    Dark Brother7:41
    Prelude To Talk2:14
    Introduction To Examples Of Intonation6:01
    Scale Of Olympos (Pentatonic)1:03
    Enharmonic Scale Of Archytas; Separated By 3/2's; Triads1:33
    Scale Of Pythagoras; Separated By 3/2's; Triads1:05
    Ptolemaic Intense Diatonic; Separated By 3/2's; Triads0:51
    Ptolemy's Equable Diatonic; Separated By 3/2's1:22
    Terpander's Hexatonic1:49
    Close Degrees1:05
    True And Tempered Triads1:20
    Resolutions From P. 186 Of Genesis Of A Music; Resolution P. 187; "Familiar" Resolution2:21
    Fox-Strangeways Resolutions2:24
    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…"3:54
    Multiple Tonal Senses From Antiphony Of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…"2:37
    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?"4:02
    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."1:43
    Melodic Subtleties From The Bewitched6:10
    Instrumental Tunings: Harmonic Canon I As Iin Revelation; Petals; Chromelodeon Two Sets Of Reeds; Revelation10:40
    Dissonances And Consonance: Coda To Oedipus; Coda To Revelation6:50
    Disc 3
    June 11, 1935 — Santa Rosa, California0:27
    June 12 — Federal Shelter, Stockton3:37
    June 131:28
    June 141:22
    June 16 — Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta3:27
    June 170:27
    July 43:50
    July 140:50
    July 161:16
    July 191:11
    July 20 — Heading North, Between Sacramento And Redding2:24
    July 24 — Federal Shelter, Portland2:25
    July 25 — Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington4:16
    July 272:33
    July 290:25
    July 300:29
    August 7 — Between Grants Pass And Klamath Falls, Oregon1:56
    August 151:31
    October 22 — Nearing Monterey5:01
    October 24 — Leaving Big Sur2:33
    October 25 — Near Slate's Hot Springs2:56
    October 261:22
    October 270:35
    October 280:17
    October 291:28
    October 30 — Big Creek0:53
    November 12 — Santa Barbara2:23
    November 140:31
    November 15 — Leaving Santa Barbara4:17
    November 16 — Ojai0:57
    November 171:02
    November 23 — Los Angeles0:29
    November 280:19
    December 40:42
    December, 19358:44
    February 1, 1936 — San Bernardino4:00
    Disc 4
    Yankee Doodle Birds0:36
    Y.D. Fantasy — On The Words Of An Early American Tune3:54
    O Frabjous Day!3:10
    You Are Charged With Being Guilty. Are You Drunk Or Not?1:02
    Ring Around The Moon — A Dance Fantasm For Here And Now9:00
    Bless This Home3:21
    Harry's Wake46:23