Harry Partch (Composer)
Born: 24th June 1901, Oakland, Ca. USA
Died: 3rd September 1974, Encinitas, Ca. USA
Nationality: American
Harry Partch 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 many unique instruments, with such names as the Chromelodeon, the Quadrangularis Reversum, and the Zymo-Xyl.
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- 17 Lyrics of Li Po (1)
- A Musical Account of a Transcontinental Hobo Trip (1)
- A Setting of the Cries of Two Newsboys on a Foggy Night in the Twenties (1)
- And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma (1)
- Barstow (2)
- Barstow - Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California (6)
- Bitter Music (2)
- By the Rivers of Babylon (3)
- Cancion de Los Muchachos (1)
- Castor and Pollux (3)
- Daphne of the Dunes (2)
- Dark Brother (2)
- Delusion of the Fury (2)
- Eleven Intrusions (2)
- Even Wild Horses (1)
- King Oedipus (1)
- Letter from Hobo Pablo, December, 1942, Three Intrusions (2)
- Plectra and Percussion Dance (1)
- Revelations in the Courthouse Park (1)
- Ring Around the Moon (1)
- Rotate the Body in All Its Planes (1)
- San Francisco (3)
- Scherzo schizophrenia (1)
- Sonata Dementia (1)
- Studies on Ancient Greek Scales (2)
- The Bewitched - A Dance Satire (2)
- The Dreamer That Remains (1)
- The Letter (3)
- The Wayward (1)
- Twelve Intrusions (1)
- U.S. Highball (2)
- Ulysses at the Edge (2)
- Ulysses Departs from the Edge of the World (2)
- Water! Water! (1)
- Windsong (2)
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