Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. He composed using...
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The American composer Harry Partch (1901-1974) composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, derived from the natural Harmonic series;...
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devised by Max Friedrich Meyer and refined by Harry Partch.[failed verification] The first of Partch's "four concepts" is "The scale of musical intervals...
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Harry Partch in a unique ensemble of microtonal instruments that Partch designed and built himself; Drummond performed in the premieres of Partch’s Daphne...
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Genesis of a Music (category Harry Partch)
Music is a book first published in 1949 by microtonal composer Harry Partch (1901–1974). Partch first presents a polemic against both equal temperament and...
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Limit (music) (category Harry Partch)
limit was introduced by Harry Partch, who used it to give an upper bound on the complexity of harmony; hence the name. Harry Partch, Ivor Darreg, and Ralph...
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The American composer Harry Partch (1901–1974) composed in musical tunings not available on conventional Western instruments. Instead, he developed a 43-tone...
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tuning, including works by Lou Harrison, LaMonte Young, John Cage, and Harry Partch. He often arranges pieces for guitar and other instruments such as harp...
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tuning an instrument and a systems of pitches Partch's 43-tone scale – Musical scale created by Harry Partch Quarter tone – Musical interval Raga – Melodic...
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Virgil Franklin Partch (October 17, 1916 – August 10, 1984), who generally signed his work Vip, was an American gag cartoonist. His work appeared in magazines...
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Otonality and utonality (category Harry Partch)
Otonality and utonality are terms introduced by Harry Partch to describe chords whose pitch classes are the harmonics or subharmonics of a given fixed...
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collaboration, he pursued a more eclectic and experimental sound influenced by Harry Partch and Captain Beefheart, as heard on the loose trilogy Swordfishtrombones...
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microtonal tunings are used in Iannis Xenakis' Pléïades and in the music of Harry Partch. Metallophones are a subset, made of metal, of Hornbostel-Sachs category...
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British colonial administrator Harry Pace (1884–1943), American music publisher and insurance executive Harry Partch (1901–1974), American composer,...
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Partch is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Harry Partch (1901–1974), American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments...
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the American gamelan movement and world music; along with composers Harry Partch and Claude Vivier, and ethnomusicologist Colin McPhee. The majority of...
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computer-controlled composition associated with composers such as Lejaren Hiller. Harry Partch and Ivor Darreg worked with other tuning scales based on the physical...
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Nolan, singer and songwriter. George Orwell, British author John Patric Harry Partch Al Purdy Ben Reitman, anarchist and physician Carl Sandburg Emil Sitka...
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the 1962 album 'This is IT' state "Watts in a Japanese no-noh." Harry Partch – Partch called his work Delusion of the Fury "a ritualistic web". Kate Molleson...
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album. A Beck song called "Harry Partch", a tribute to the composer of the same name and his "corporeal" music, employs Partch's 43-tone scale. During 1998...
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many pieces of new-age music. Also other builders like Yuri Landman, Harry Partch (for example his famous cloud chamber bowl instrument), Pierre Bastien...
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tension on the membrane and partly on the length of the tube. In 1948 Harry Partch, an American composer, developed a system of music that depended on the...
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The Beginning Of a Web", opening section of Delusion of the Fury by Harry Partch This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Exordium...
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private school in Kansas City, Missouri "Barstow", a musical work by Harry Partch Bartow (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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The Ptolemy, a 1934 large reed organ built by the American composer Harry Partch Ptolemaea, a song by Ethel Cain from her debut album Preacher's Daughter...
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Tonality diamond (category Harry Partch)
with Harry Partch ("Many theorists of just intonation consider the tonality diamond Partch's greatest contribution to microtonal theory."). Partch arranged...
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In the early 1920s Novarro had a romantic relationship with composer Harry Partch, who was working as an usher at the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the time...
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Old Barstow was a 1941 song by comedian/musician Spike Jones. Composer Harry Partch wrote Barstow, inspired by eight pieces of graffiti written by hitchhikers...
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Dean Drummond (category Pupils of Harry Partch)
zoomoozophone in 1978. From 1990 to his death he was the conservator of the Harry Partch instrumentarium. Born in Los Angeles, Drummond studied trumpet and composition...
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Gudok H'arpeggione Hardanger fiddle Herati dutar Hurdy-gurdy Kithara (of Harry Partch) Koto Some instruments of the lute family Mohan veena Moodswinger Moonlander...
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