The Use of English in Serious Music

Harry Partch

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

58 SECONDI • JAN 01 2000

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I am Harry Partch

00:24

By the Rivers of Babylon

03:26

Texts and Music: A Wagnerian Wrestling Match

01:22

17 Lyrics of Li Po: A Dream

04:34

17 Lyrics of Li Po: An Encounter in the Field

00:48

17 Lyrics of Li Po: On Hearing the Flute

01:01

17 Lyrics of Li Po: The Intruder

01:10

17 Lyrics of Li Po: I am a Peach Tree

01:27

17 Lyrics of Li Po: With a Man of Leisure

00:48

17 Lyrics of Li Po: A Midnight Farewell

01:19

17 Lyrics of Li Po: Before the Cask of Wine

02:11

17 Lyrics of Li Po: On the Ship of Spicewood

02:32

17 Lyrics of Li Po: By the Great Wall

01:56

The Use of English in Serious Music

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Barstow: 8 Hitchhikers' Inscriptions

08:27

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

02:30

Life Is too precious to spend It with important people

01:30

US Highball: A Musical Account of a Transcontinental Hobo Trip

26:46

My Heart Keeps Beating Time

01:37

San Francisco II

02:51

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

00:31

2 Settings from Finnegans Wake: No. 1, Isobel

02:54

2 Settings from Finnegans Wake: No. 2, Annah the Allmaziful

02:21

Dark Brother

07:38

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Prelude to Talk

02:14

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Introduction to Examples Oo Intonation

06:06

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Scale of Olympos (Pentatonic)

01:06

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Enharmonic Scale of Archytas; Separated by 3/2's; Triads

01:36

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Scale of Pythagoras; Separated by 3/2's; Triads

01:07

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Ptolemaic Intense Diatonic; Separated by 3/2's; Triads

00:54

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Ptolemy's Equable Diatonic; Separated by 3/2's

01:25

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Terpander's Hexatonic

01:52

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Close Degrees

01:08

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: True and Tempered Triads

01:23

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Resolutions from p. 186 of Genesis of a Music; Resolution p. 187; "Familiar" Resolution

02:25

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Fox-Strangeways Resolutions

02:27

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…"

03:57

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Multiple Tonal Senses from Antiphony of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…"

02:40

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

04:05

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."

01:46

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Melodic Subtleties from the Bewitched

06:13

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Instrumental Tunings: Harmonic Canon I as in Revelation; Petals; Chromelodeon two sets of reeds; Revelation

10:42

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Dissonances and Consonance: Coda to Oedipus; Coda to Revelation

06:53

Bitter Music: June 11, 1935 — Santa Rosa, California

00:27

Bitter Music: June 12 — Federal Shelter, Stockton

03:36

Bitter Music: June 13

01:28

Bitter Music: June 14

02:22

Bitter Music: June 16 — Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta

03:27

Bitter Music: June 17

00:27

Bitter Music: July 4

03:50

Bitter Music: July 14

00:50

Bitter Music: July 16

01:16

Bitter Music: July 19

01:11

Bitter Music: July 20 — Heading North, Between Sacramento and Redding

02:23

Bitter Music: July 24 — Federal Shelter, Portland

02:26

Bitter Music: July 25 — Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington

06:16

Bitter Music: July 27

00:33

Bitter Music: July 29

00:25

Bitter Music: July 30

00:29

Bitter Music: August 7 — Between Grants Pass and Klamath Falls, Oregon

01:56

Bitter Music: August 15

01:30

Bitter Music: October 22 — Nearing Monterey

05:01

Bitter Music: October 24 — Leaving Big Sur

02:33

Bitter Music: October 25 — Near Slate's Hot Springs

02:57

Bitter Music: October 26

01:21

Bitter Music: October 27

00:35

Bitter Music: October 28

00:17

Bitter Music: October 29

01:28

Bitter Music: October 30 — Big Creek

00:54

Bitter Music: November 12 — Santa Barbara

02:23

Bitter Music: November 14

00:31

Bitter Music: November 15 — Leaving Santa Barbara

04:17

Bitter Music: November 16 — Ojai

00:57

Bitter Music: November 17

01:02

Bitter Music: November 23 — los Angeles

00:29

Bitter Music: November 28

00:19

Bitter Music: December 4

00:42

Bitter Music: December, 1935

08:44

Bitter Music: February 1, 1936 — San Bernardino

04:01

Yankee Doodle Birds

00:38

Yankee Doodle Fantasy

03:57

2 Settings from Lewis Carroll: O Frabjous Day!

03:13

You Are charged with being guilty. Are you drunk or not?

01:03

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

09:04

Bless This Home

03:26

Harrys Wake

46:25

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

The Use of English in Serious Music