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PARTCH, H.: Historic Speech Music Recordings (Partch)

Harry Partch (narrator), Lee Hoiby (kithara), William Wendlandt (baritone), Christine Charnstrom (keyboards), William Wendlant (viola), Fralia Hancock (drum), Philip Blackburn (vocals), Liz Schmidt (piano), Mark Enslin (vocals), Arun Chandra (guitar), Rick Burkhardt (guitar), Keith Johnson (guitar),...

  • Release Date: 1st Jan 2000
  • Catalogue No: INNOVA401
  • Label: Innova
  • Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

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Contents

Partch: I am Harry Partch

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  • Harry Partch

Partch: By the Rivers of Babylon

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  • Harry Partch, William Wendlandt, Lee Hoiby, Christine Charnstrom

Partch: Texts and Music

Work length1:22
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  • Harry Partch

A Wagnerian Wrestling Match

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Partch: 17 Lyrics of Li Po

Work length17:40
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  • Harry Partch, William Wendlant

A Dream

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An Encounter in the Field

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On Hearing the Flute

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The Intruder

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I am a Peach Tree

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With a Man of Leisure

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A Midnight Farewell

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Before the Cask of Wine

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On the Ship of Spicewood

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By the Great Wall

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Partch: The Use of English in Serious Music

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  • Harry Partch

Partch: Barstow

Work length8:26
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  • Harry Partch, William Wendlandt, Lee Hoiby, Christine Charnstrom

8 Hitchhikers' Inscriptions

Track length8:26
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Partch: San Francisco

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  • Harry Partch, Lee Hoiby, Christine Charnstrom

A Setting of the Cries of Two Newsboys on a Foggy Night in the Twenties

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Partch: Life Is too precious to spend It with important people

Work length1:29
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  • Harry Partch

Partch: US Highball

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  • Harry Partch, William Wendlandt, Lee Hoiby, Christine Charnstrom, Fralia Hancock

A Musical Account of a Transcontinental Hobo Trip

Track length26:46
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Partch: My Heart Keeps Beating Time

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  • Philip Blackburn, Liz Schmidt

Partch: San Francisco II

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  • Mark Enslin, Keith Johnson, Arun Chandra, Rick Burkhardt, Lesley Olson, Sarah Wiseman

Partch: I'm going to start right off by giving you some sounds…

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  • Harry Partch

Partch: 2 Settings from Finnegans Wake

Work length5:13
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  • Harry Partch, Lola Harding, Dorothy Holden, Hilmar Luckhardt

No. 1, Isobel

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No. 2, Annah the Allmaziful

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Partch: Dark Brother

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  • Harry Partch, William Wendlandt, Lee Hoiby, Christine Charnstrom, Fralia Hancock

Partch: A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations

Work length59:47
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  • Harry Partch

Prelude to Talk

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Introduction to Examples Oo Intonation

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Scale of Olympos (Pentatonic)

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Enharmonic Scale of Archytas; Separated by 3 / 2's; Triads

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Scale of Pythagoras; Separated by 3 / 2's; Triads

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Ptolemaic Intense Diatonic; Separated by 3 / 2's; Triads

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Ptolemy's Equable Diatonic; Separated by 3 / 2's

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Terpander's Hexatonic

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Close Degrees

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True and Tempered Triads

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Resolutions from p. 186 of Genesis of a Music; Resolution p. 187; "Familiar" Resolution

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Fox-Strangeways Resolutions

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Tonal Flux from Genesis, p. 188; Tonal Flux from the Letter and Third Chorus of Oedipus; Another p. 188; Tonal Flux from Antiphony of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…"

Track length3:56
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Multiple Tonal Senses from Antiphony of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…"

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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

Track length4:04
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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."

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Melodic Subtleties from the Bewitched

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Instrumental Tunings: Harmonic Canon I as in Revelation; Petals; Chromelodeon two sets of reeds; Revelation

Track length10:42
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Dissonances and Consonance: Coda to Oedipus; Coda to Revelation

Track length6:52
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Partch: Bitter Music

Work length1:13:07
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  • Warren Burt, Sheila Guymer

June 11, 1935 — Santa Rosa, California

Track length0:27
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June 12 — Federal Shelter, Stockton

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June 13

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June 14

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June 16 — Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta

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June 17

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July 4

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July 14

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July 16

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July 19

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July 20 — Heading North, Between Sacramento and Redding

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July 24 — Federal Shelter, Portland

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July 25 — Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington

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July 27

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July 29

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July 30

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August 7 — Between Grants Pass and Klamath Falls, Oregon

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August 15

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October 22 — Nearing Monterey

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October 24 — Leaving Big Sur

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October 25 — Near Slate's Hot Springs

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October 26

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October 27

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October 28

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October 29

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October 30 — Big Creek

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November 12 — Santa Barbara

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November 14

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November 15 — Leaving Santa Barbara

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November 16 — Ojai

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November 17

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November 23 — los Angeles

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November 28

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December 4

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December, 1935

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February 1, 1936 — San Bernardino

Track length4:00
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Partch: Yankee Doodle Birds

Work length0:37
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  • Harry Partch

Partch: Yankee Doodle Fantasy

Work length3:57
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  • Harry Partch, Lola Harding, Hilmar Luckhardt, Don Thompson, Lee Hoiby

Partch: 2 Settings from Lewis Carroll

Work length3:12
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  • Harry Partch, Danlee Mitchell

O Frabjous Day!

Track length3:12
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Partch: You Are charged with being guilty. Are you drunk or not?

Work length1:02
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  • Harry Partch

Partch: Ring Around the Moon, a Dance Fantasm for Here and Now

Work length9:03
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  • Lynn Ludlow
  • Gate 5 Ensemble
  • Horace Schwartz

Partch: Bless This Home

Work length3:25
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  • Harry Partch, Vincenzo Prockelo, Joseph Varhula
  • John Garvey

Partch: Harrys Wake

Work length46:25
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  • Harry Partch

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