PARTCH, HARRY

1901–76, American composer, b. Oakland, Calif. Partch was a highly individualistic, largely self-taught composer. He developed a theory of "corporeal" music based on "harmonized spoken words," exemplified in works such as Account of the Normandy Invasion by an American Glider Pilot. The piece is based on a recording of the pilot's recollections. Partch also wrote music based on newsboy cries and hobo experiences. Another of his innovations was the division of the octave into a 43-note scale. He designed and built instruments to play music composed from this scale. Partch wrote several stage works, including, in 1952, music for William Butler Yeats's adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus.

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Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater
Book by W. Anthony Sheppard; University of California Press, 2001
Subjects: Music In Theaters, Music Theater--History And Criticism, Music--20th Century--History And Criticism, Music--Performance
...provocative works and performance theories of the composer Harry Partch. Partch presents a sustained attempt to create total theater...Department of Music made possible my research at the Harry Partch Archive, University of Illinois. I am indebted to...
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Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America
Book by Robert P. Morgan; Norton, 1991
Subjects: Music--20th Century--History And Criticism, Style, Musical
...The Experimental Tradition in American Music Cowell Partch Varese CHAPTER XIV Latin America...The Aeolian Harp, 298 Henry Partch with his gourd tree and cone gongs, 304...
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Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures
Book by George E. Haggerty, John Beynon, Douglas Eisner; Garland, 2000
Subjects: Gays--History, Gays--Social Life And Customs
...and Musicians 1: Classical Music Music and Musicians 2: Popular Music Musical Theater Opera Opera Queens Partch, Harry Pears, Sir Peter Porter, Cole Albert Poulenc, Francis Rorem, Ned Saint-Saens, Camille Schubert, Franz Peter...
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Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook
Book by Larry Sitsky; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Avant-Garde (Music), Composers--Biography, Music--20th Century--History And Criticism
...Harry Partch 1901 1974 365...as marginal curiosities. Also, Harry Partch remains an avant-gardist for us...times objectivity, we do not see Partch in relationship with his recent...
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Music in the New World
Book by Charles Hamm; Norton, 1983
Subjects: Music--United States--History And Criticism
...made similar use of several older recorded anthologies of American music, and listed the contents of these in my discography: Harry Smiths superb 6-disc Anthology of American Folk Music 1952 and the extensive and useful Music in America 1958-72 , the...
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journal articles on: Partch Harry  - 6 results

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A Bradford Morrow Checklist
Journal article; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 20, 2000
Subjects: Fiction--Bibliography, Periodicals--Bibliography, Poetry--Bibliography
...Cortazar, Joanna Scott, David Foster Wallace, Stephen Dixon, Susan Gevirtz, Gilbert Sorrentino, Anselm Hollo, Can Xue, Harry Partch, Robert Ashley, Meredith Monk, John Moran, Alice Farley, Ann T. Greene, Ruth E. Margraff, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jackson...
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Institutions, Industries, Technologies
Journal article by Arved Ashby; Musical Quarterly, Vol. 83, 2000
Subjects: Music
...the Saxon prince." 33 Over two centuries later, Harry Partch traced Western musical "autocracy" to large ensembles...impressions certainly reinforce each other. 34. Harry Partch, "Bach and Temperament", in Bitter Music: Collected...
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"Some Enchanted Evening"-Tuning in the Amazing Fifties, Switching off the Elusive Decade
Journal article by Teresa Alves; American Studies International, Vol. 39, 2001
Subjects: Authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Halberstam, David--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Lhamon, W.T., Jr.--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Nineteen-fifties decade--Social aspects, Social history--United States, The Fifties (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., United States--History
...commercial and aesthetic goals. In John Cage, Milton Babbit, Harry Partch or Elliott Carter, the closer association with the new...Abraham A. The Story of American Painting. New York: Harry N. Abrams, n.d. Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. New York...
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A Quartet for Our Times
Journal article by Michael Chanan; New Left Review, Vol. a, 1993
Subjects: Right And Left (Political Science), Socialism
...special showing in music. His confreres include figures like Ives and Ruggles; Henry Cowell with his tone clusters; Harry Partch with his home-made instruments and 43-note scales; and Conlon Nancarrow, forced to live in Mexico after fighting in...
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The Rise of Independent Directors in the United States, 1950-2005: Of Shareholder Value and Stock Market Prices
Journal article by Jeffrey N. Gordon; Stanford Law Review, Vol. 59, 2007
Subjects: Corporate governance--History, Disclosure (Securities law)--Laws, regulations and rules, Stock prices--Laws, regulations and rules, Stocks--Laws, regulations and rules, Stocks--Prices and rates
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American Mythic
Magazine article by Dermot Clinch; New Statesman, Vol. 127, December 4, 1998
Subjects: Composers--Appreciation, Inventors--Appreciation, Music festivals--United Kingdom, Partch, Harry--Appreciation, United Kingdom--Fairs, festivals, etc.
...most authentic pioneer of all. Harry Partchs wit was wry and his beard, latterly...needed US Highball. The British Harry Partch Society did a brisk trade in the...forget the occasion. Bob Gilmores "Harry Partch: a biography" is published by Yale...
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Dancing in Your Head
Magazine article by Gene Santoro; The Nation, Vol. 253, August 12, 1991
Subjects: Coleman, Ornette--Criticism and interpretation, Jazz musicians--Criticism and interpretation
...Hence the barbaric yawps of joyful noise-makers like Harry Partch. Partch, a typical American eccentric, decided that post-Bach...during Mays Bang on a Can festival in New York, where Partchs The Wayward was performed. Discarding ideas about...
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New Life Members
Magazine article; Sierra, Vol. 86, May 2001
Subjects: Environmental associations--Membership, Environmentalists--Associations and societies, Sierra Club--Membership
...Jackson Mr. Harry L. Jacobs...David Ursula Partch Rob Pash...
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Prince of Darkness
Magazine article by Gene Santoro; The Nation, Vol. 253, November 11, 1991
Subjects: Davis, Miles--Biography, Musicians--Biography
...Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, Prince, Ravel, Debussy, Harry Partch, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, African sources...the sources for the concept, "Gil gave me an album by Harry Partch in 1948, where there were drums and keyboards that really...
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The Artist as Prophet and Jester
Magazine article by Jacques Barzun; American Scholar, Vol. 69, Winter 2000
Subjects: Modern art--History, Modernism (Art)--History, Modernism (Literature)--History, Modernism--History
...voice works composed and sung on a 43-tone scale by Harry Partch. They required a few specially built instruments, and...uncommonly liable to error. The neglect of such composers as Harry Partch and Bernard Van Dieren illustrates the incompleteness...
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Peering Inside the Outlaws
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), March 11, 2005
Subjects: Bukowski, Charles
...carnival performer who hung out with Bukowski for a time. But the album also pays tribute to Jack Kerouac, Lenny Bruce, Harry Partch, Dave Van Ronk, Rambling Jack Elliott, Merle Haggard, Woody Guthrie and radical environmentalist Edward Abbey. When...
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Slimmer but Stronger Harlem Dance Troupe Arrives: Performers Plan New Works and Some Revivals for KenCen
Newspaper article by Jean Battey Lewis; The Washington Times, April 28, 1996
Subjects: King, Martin Luther, Jr.
...having their world premieres here." The first is "Acid Dreams and Nightmares," by Mr. Garland, set to a score by Harry Partch. Mr. Garland, a relative newcomer as a choreographer, last season made a witty, well-crafted work, "The Joplin Dances...


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Partch, Harry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PARTCH, HARRY 1901 74, American composer, b. Oakland...individualistic and largely self-taught, Partch rejected many of the traditions of Western...a recording of the pilots recollections. Partch also wrote music based on such sources as...


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