Partch, H.: Historic Speech Music Recordings (Enclosure 2)

"Partch, H.: Historic Speech Music Recordings (Enclosure 2) album by Lee Hoiby on BeMusic"

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Release Date: 2000-01-01 00:00:00

  • I'm going to start right off by giving you some sounds…
  • I am Harry Partch
  • Bitter Music: June 11, 1935 — Santa Rosa, California
  • By the Rivers of Babylon
  • 2 Settings from Finnegans Wake: No. 1. Isobel
  • Bitter Music: June 12 — Federal Shelter, Stockton
  • Bitter Music: June 13
  • 2 Settings from Finnegans Wake: No. 2. Annah the Allmaziful
  • Texts and Music: A Wagnerian Wrestling Match
  • Bitter Music: June 14
  • 17 Lyrics of Li Po: A Dream
  • Dark Brother
  • Bitter Music: June 16 — Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta
  • 17 Lyrics of Li Po: An Encounter in the Field
  • A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Prelude to Talk
  • Bitter Music: June 17
  • A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Introduction to Examples Oo Intonation
  • 17 Lyrics of Li Po: On Hearing the Flute
  • Bitter Music: July 4
  • 17 Lyrics of Li Po: The Intruder
  • A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Scale of Olympos (Pentatonic)
  • 17 Lyrics of Li Po: I am a Peach Tree
  • A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Enharmonic Scale of Archytas; Separated by 3/2's; Triads
  • 17 Lyrics of Li Po: With a Man of Leisure
  • A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Scale of Pythagoras; Separated by 3/2's; Triads
  • 17 Lyrics of Li Po: A Midnight Farewell
  • A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Ptolemaic Intense Diatonic; Separated by 3/2's; Triads
  • 17 Lyrics of Li Po: Before the Cask of Wine
  • A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Ptolemy's Equable Diatonic; Separated by 3/2's
  • 17 Lyrics of Li Po: On the Ship of Spicewood
  • A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Terpander's Hexatonic
  • 17 Lyrics of Li Po: By the Great Wall
  • A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Close Degrees
  • A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: True and Tempered Triads
  • The Use of English in Serious Music
  • A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Resolutions from p. 186 of Genesis of a Music; Resolution p. 187; "Familiar" Resolution
  • Barstow: 8 Hitchhikers' Inscriptions
  • A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Fox-Strangeways Resolutions
  • San Francisco: a Setting of the Cries of Two Newsboys on a Foggy Night in the Twenties
  • A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: 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…"
  • Life is too precious to spend it with important people
  • A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Multiple Tonal Senses from Antiphony of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…"
  • US Highball: a Musical Account of a Transcontinental Hobo Trip
  • A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: 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
  • My Heart Keeps Beating Time
  • A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: 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."
  • San Francisco II
  • A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Melodic Subtleties from The Bewitched
  • A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Instrumental Tunings: Harmonic Canon I as in Revelation; Petals; Chromelodeon two sets of reeds; Revelation
  • A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Dissonances and Consonance: Coda to Oedipus; Coda to Revelation