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Harry Partch (24 Jun 1901 - 03 Sep 1974)

Male Person - United States American composer and inventor

Recordings by (248)

  1. U.S. Highball ?:?? (1946)
  2. Castor & Pollux - A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini ?:?? (1953)
  3. Ring Around The Moon - A Dance for Here and Now ?:?? (1953)
  4. Even Wild Horses - Dance Music for an Absent Drama ?:?? (1953)
  5. Verses 1 to 17 ?:?? (1966)
  6. Verses 17 to 34 ?:?? (1966)
  7. Daphne Of the Dunes 17:28 (May 1969)
  8. Barstow: Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions From a Highway Railing at Barstow, California 9:20 (May 1969)
  9. Castor & Pollux: A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini: From Plectra & Percussion Dances 16:19 (May 1969)
  10. The Bewitched 9:48 (1989)
  11. Castor And Pollux 15:48 (1989)
  12. The Letter 2:58 (1989)
  13. Windsong 11:49 (1989)
  14. And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma 35:56 (1989)
  15. Chorus One 11:58 (1989)
  16. Scene One 12:36 (1989)
  17. Chorus Two 8:19 (1989)
  18. Scene Two 6:36 (1989)
  19. Chorus Three 11:27 (1989)
  20. Heavenly Daze 6:49 (1989)
  21. Scene Three 15:24 (1989)
  22. Chorus Four 6:48 (1989)
  23. Scene Four 7:50 (1989)
  24. Coda 3:40 (1989)
  25. The Long Departed Lover 1:30 (21 Nov 1995)
  26. On the City Street 0:38 (21 Nov 1995)
  27. An Encounter in the Field 0:53 (21 Nov 1995)
  28. The Intruder 1:14 (21 Nov 1995)
  29. On Ascending the Sin-Ping Tower 1:47 (21 Nov 1995)
  30. In the Springtime on the South Side of the Yangtze Kiang 3:32 (21 Nov 1995)
  31. The Night of Sorrow 1:46 (21 Nov 1995)
  32. On Hearing the Flute in the Yellow Crane House 1:58 (21 Nov 1995)
  33. On Hearing the Flute at Lo-Cheng One Spring Night (2) 1:46 (21 Nov 1995)
  34. A Dream 5:49 (21 Nov 1995)
  35. On Seeing Off Meng Hao-Jan 2:26 (21 Nov 1995)
  36. On the Ship of Spice-wood 3:09 (21 Nov 1995)
  37. With a Man of Leisure 1:09 (21 Nov 1995)
  38. A Midnight Farewell (2) 1:49 (21 Nov 1995)
  39. Before the Cask of Wine (2) 2:52 (21 Nov 1995)
  40. By the Great Wall 2:03 (21 Nov 1995)
  41. I am a Peach Tree 2:17 (21 Nov 1995)
  42. And on the Seventh Day, Petals Fell in Petaluma 4:14 (1996)
  43. The Wayward: I. U.S. Highball-A Musical Account of a Transcontinental Hobo Trip 14:07 (18 Nov 1997)
  44. The Wayward: II. San Francisco-A Setting of the Cries of Two Newsboys on a Foggy Night in the Twenties 2:35 (18 Nov 1997)
  45. The Wayward: III. The Letter 2:52 (18 Nov 1997)
  46. The Wayward: IV. Barstow-Eight Hitchhiker Incriptions From a Highway Railing at Barstow, California 10:04 (18 Nov 1997)
  47. The Bewitched: Prologue. The Lost Musicians Mix Magic 18:08 (1997)
  48. The Bewitched: Scene 1. Three Undergrads Become Transfigured in a Hong Kong Music Hall 5:29 (1997)
  49. The Bewitched: Scene 2. Excercises in Harmony and Counterpoint Are Tried in a Court of Ancient Ritual 5:07 (1997)
  50. The Bewitched: Scene 3. The Romancing of a Pathological Liar Comes to an Inspired End 5:31 (1997)
  51. The Bewitched: Scene 4. A Soul Tormented by Contemporary Music Finds a Humanizing Alchemy 5:40 (1997)
  52. The Bewitched: Scene 5. Visions Fill the Eyes of a Defeated Basketball Team in the Shower Room 4:19 (1997)
  53. The Bewitched: Scene 6. Euphoria Descends a Sausalito Stairway 4:16 (1997)
  54. The Bewitched: Scene 7. Two Detectives on the Trail of a Tricky Culprit Turn in Their Badges 5:30 (1997)
  55. The Bewitched: Scene 8. A Court in Its Own Contempt Rises to a Motherly Apothesis 5:26 (1997)
  56. The Bewitched: Scene 9. A Lost Political Soul Finds Himself Among the Voteless Women of Paradise 5:56 (1997)
  57. The Bewitched: Scene 10. The Cognoscenti Are Plunged Into a Demonic Descent While at Cocktails / Epilogue 9:16 (1997)
  58. Eleven Intrusions: I. Study on Olympos' Pentatonic 1:20 (1997)
  59. Eleven Intrusions: II. Study on Archytas' Enharmonic 2:02 (1997)
  60. Eleven Intrusions: III. The Rose 1:42 (1997)
  61. Eleven Intrusions: IV. The Crane 1:41 (1997)
  62. Eleven Intrusions: V. The Waterfall 1:11 (1997)
  63. Eleven Intrusions: VI. The Wind 1:44 (1997)
  64. Eleven Intrusions: VII. The Street 2:46 (1997)
  65. Eleven Intrusions: VIII. Lover 1:53 (1997)
  66. Eleven Intrusions: IX. Soldiers - War - Another War 2:02 (1997)
  67. Eleven Intrusions: X. Vanity 0:48 (1997)
  68. Eleven Intrusions: XI. Cloud-Chamber Music 4:02 (1997)
  69. Castor & Pollux, A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini: I. Castor 7:41 (1997)
  70. Castor & Pollux, A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini: II. Pollux 7:49 (1997)
  71. Ring Around the Moon, A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now: Phase One. Well, bless my soul! (Well, bless my soul!) 2:48 (1997)
  72. Ring Around the Moon, A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now: Phase Two. One, Two, Three - X, Y, Z 2:12 (1997)
  73. Ring Around the Moon, A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now: Phase Three. Shake hands now, boys, and at the sound of the bell come out fighting! 2:55 (1997)
  74. Ring Around the Moon, A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now: Phase Four. Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoity toity, hotsy totsy, acey deucy, hoochy-koochy (Look out! He's got a gun!) 1:31 (1997)
  75. Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act I Scene 1. A Decent and Honorable Mistake (Samba) 2:41 (1997)
  76. Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act I, Scene 2. Rhythm of the Womb - Melody of the Grave (Heartbeat Rhythm) 3:00 (1997)
  77. Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act I, Scene 3. Happy Birthday to You! (Afro-Chinese Minuet) 2:46 (1997)
  78. Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act II, Scene 1. "Nor These Lips Upon Your Eyes" (Rumba) 3:25 (1997)
  79. Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act II, Scene 2. "Hunger, Thirst, Shouts, Dance!" (Ñañiga) 2:11 (1997)
  80. Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act II, Scene 3. "Land of Darkness and of Whirlwinds" (Slow, Fast, Wild!) 3:31 (1997)
  81. Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act III, Scene 1. "Had I Not Once a Lovely Youth?" (Conga) 2:46 (1997)
  82. Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act III, Scene 2. "Let Us Contemplate Undazed the Endless Reaches of My Innocence" (Tahitian Dance) 2:30 (1997)
  83. Ulysses at the Edge 6:37 (1997)
  84. Prologue: The Lost Musicians Mix Magic 18:08 (1997)
  85. Scene 1: Three Undergrads Become Transfigured in a Hong Kong Music Hall 5:30 (1997)
  86. Scene 2: Exercises in Harmony and Counterpoint Are Tried in a Court of Ancient Ritual 5:07 (1997)
  87. Scene 3: The Romancing of a Pathological Liar Comes to an Inspired End 5:33 (1997)
  88. Scene 4: A Soul Tormented by Contemporary Music Finds a Humanizing Alchemy 5:39 (1997)
  89. Scene 5: Visions Fill the Eyes of a Defeated Basketball Team in the Shower Room 4:20 (1997)
  90. Scene 6: Euphoria Descends a Sausalito Stairway 4:17 (1997)
  91. Scene 7: Two Detectives on the Tail of a Tricky Culprit Turn in Their Badges 5:32 (1997)
  92. Scene 8: A Court in Its Own Contempt Rises to a Motherly Apotheosis 5:27 (1997)
  93. Scene 9: A Lost Political Soul Finds Himself Among the Voteless Women of Paradise 5:57 (1997)
  94. Scene 10: The Cognoscenti Are Plunged Into a Demonic Descent While at Cocktails 9:18 (1997)
  95. And on the Seventh Day, Petals Fell in Petaluma (excerpt) 4:14 (1998)
  96. Ulysses Departs From the Edge of the World 6:29 (1998)
  97. Revelation in the Courthouse Park - Chorus One 11:56 (1998)
  98. Chorus Three, in Part 7:30 (1998)
  99. From Scene One: Hymn to Dionysus: Holy Joy and Get Religion 1:16 (1998)
  100. From Scene Two: Hymn to Dionysus: What the Majority Believes 1:27 (1998)
  101. From Scene Two: Hymn to Dionysus: Glory to the Male Womb 1:45 (1998)
  102. End of Scene Three and All of Chorus Four 8:19 (1998)
  103. End of Scene Four and Coda 6:44 (1998)
  104. Introduction to King Oedipus 7:44 (1998)
  105. King Oedipus: Introduction 1:59 (1998)
  106. King Oedipus: Opening Scene 6:41 (1998)
  107. King Oedipus: First Chorus 3:01 (1998)
  108. King Oedipus: Tiresias Scene (Beginning) 7:59 (1998)
  109. King Oedipus: Tiresias Scene (Continued) 5:22 (1998)
  110. King Oedipus: Second Chorus 1:10 (1998)
  111. King Oedipus: Creon Scene 6:27 (1998)
  112. King Oedipus: Jocasta Scene 6:12 (1998)
  113. King Oedipus: Incidental Music 5:02 (1998)
  114. King Oedipus: Third Chorus 1:43 (1998)
  115. King Oedipus: Messenger Scene 9:40 (1998)
  116. King Oedipus: Fourth Chorus 1:06 (1998)
  117. King Oedipus: Herdsman Scene 5:36 (1998)
  118. King Oedipus: Oedipus Scene 2:18 (1998)
  119. King Oedipus: Fifth Chorus 2:11 (1998)
  120. King Oedipus: Instrumental Commentary 2:58 (1998)
  121. King Oedipus: Antiphony 2:19 (1998)
  122. King Oedipus: Exit Oedipus - Dance-Pantomime 7:58 (1998)
  123. King Oedipus: Final Chorus 1:44 (1998)
  124. Johann Krieger: Menuet From Partita in G 0:53 (1998)
  125. Douglas Moore: Come Away, Death 3:02 (1998)
  126. Come Away, Death From December, 1942 2:46 (1998)
  127. By the Rivers of Babylon (137th Psalm) 3:39 (1998)
  128. Introduction to the Bewitched 4:05 (1998)
  129. The Bewitched: Prologue 18:56 (1998)
  130. Scene 1: Background for the Transfiguration of American Undergrads in a Hong Kong Music Hall 5:00 (1998)
  131. Scene 2: Background for the Permutation of Exercises in Harmony and Counterpoint 5:34 (1998)
  132. Scene 3: Background for the Inspired Romancing of a Pathological Liar 5:20 (1998)
  133. Scene 4: Background for the Alchemy of a Soul Tormented by Contemporary Music 5:23 (1998)
  134. Scene 5: Background for the Visions of a Defeated Basketball Team in the Shower Room 4:08 (1998)
  135. Scene 6: Background for the Euphoria on a Sausalito Stairway 4:41 (1998)
  136. Scene 7: Background for the Transmutation of Detectives on the Trail of a Culprit 5:33 (1998)
  137. Scene 8: Background for the Apotheosis of a Court in Its Own Contempt 5:36 (1998)
  138. Scene 9: Background for a Political Soul Lost Among the Voteless Women of Paradise 6:01 (1998)
  139. Scene 10: Background for the Demonic Descent of the Cognoscenti While Shouting Over Cocktails 7:30 (1998)
  140. The Bewitched: Epilogue 2:01 (1998)
  141. Olympus' Pantatonic 1:26 (2001)
  142. Archytas Enharmonic 2:01 (2001)
  143. The Rose 2:02 (2001)
  144. The Crane 1:31 (2001)
  145. The Waterfall 1:15 (2001)
  146. The Wind 1:53 (2001)
  147. The Street 2:43 (2001)
  148. Lover 1:53 (2001)
  149. Soldiers - War - Another War 2:14 (2001)
  150. Vanity 1:04 (2001)
  151. Cloud Chamber Music 4:04 (2001)
  152. Dark Brother 9:32 (2001)
  153. Barstow 9:56 (2002)
  154. San Francisco 3:40 (2002)
  155. Rotate the Body in All Its Planes - Ballad for Gymnasts 8:51 (2005)
  156. The Opening Prologue, and Second Prologue, in Which the Instruments Attack the Producer 2:59 (2005)
  157. Water Criers and Lead-In Lines, O What Could He Do but Pick Her Up? 4:04 (2005)
  158. Water Criers, and Lead-In Lines, Witch for Water. The Aldermen's Fugue on No. Wanda the Water Witch 5:59 (2005)
  159. Santa Mystiana the Beautiful 2:42 (2005)
  160. Water Criers. Visitors From Strange and Foreign Places: The Singer From Spoleto, and an Alabama Mockingbird - Dear Old Alabama. 2:02 (2005)
  161. We Really Love Each Other. In 43 Whines to the Octave. 1:41 (2005)
  162. Water Criers. The Baseball Game Is Called on Account of Rain! 3:17 (2005)
  163. To Hell With the Game! Rain! Rain! The Highest Goodness Is Like Water. 2:26 (2005)
  164. Opening Epilogue (After Three Days of Rain). Ghosts, Undele, Oomph! (The Indian Ghosts dance Over Clarence's Body and Play on Liquor Bottles). 2:56 (2005)
  165. Water Criers. Intervening Dialog. We'll Sue You for a Million! 3:03 (2005)
  166. Do-Lo-Do-Lo - Doom! Phoebus Bids Farewell. The Indian Runners Bring News. The Final Song and Dance, Gone, Man, Gone! Wi the Descending Moan of the Siren Phoebus Plunges Wildly Into Nothingness. 4:55 (2005)
  167. Eighth Epilogue - The Producer Finally Silences the Instruments. Final Epilogue: "The Highest Goodness Is Like Water." 1:48 (2005)
  168. The Bewitched - Scene 10: The Cognoscenti Are Plunged Into a Demonic Descent While at Cocktails 7:16 (2005)
  169. The Bewitched - Epilogue 2:06 (2005)
  170. Ring Around the World: Phase Four 1:32 (2006)
  171. Partch in Prologue 1:27 (2007)
  172. Adapted Viola 2:27 (2007)
  173. Chromelodeon I / Blo-Boy 2:30 (2007)
  174. Adapted Guitar 1:05 (2007)
  175. Kithara 1:10 (2007)
  176. Harmonic Cannon II 0:49 (2007)
  177. Diamond Marimba 1:29 (2007)
  178. Bass Marimba 1:23 (2007)
  179. Cloud Chamber Bowls 1:52 (2007)
  180. Spoils of War 1:58 (2007)
  181. Marimba Eroica 3:56 (2007)
  182. Surrogate Kithara 1:26 (2007)
  183. Kithara II 1:22 (2007)
  184. Boo 1:56 (2007)
  185. Koto 1:14 (2007)
  186. Harmonic Cannon I 1:17 (2007)
  187. Chromelodeon II 1:11 (2007)
  188. Chromelodeons I & II 2:06 (2007)
  189. Crychord 0:57 (2007)
  190. Zymo-Xyl 1:43 (2007)
  191. Mazda Marimba 1:38 (2007)
  192. Gourd Tree 1:50 (2007)
  193. Eucal Blossom 1:14 (2007)
  194. Quadrangularis Reversum 2:24 (2007)
  195. Harmonic Cannon III (Blue Rainbow) 1:38 (2007)
  196. Hand Instruments 2:09 (2007)
  197. Partch in Epilogue 0:54 (2007)
  198. Barstow - Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California 9:20 (2015)
  199. Castor & Pollux - A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini from Plectra & Percussion Dances: 16:19 (2015)
  200. Partch in Prologue, Adapted Viola 3:55 (2015)
  201. Chromelodeon I 2:29 (2015)
  202. Kithara I 1:08 (2015)
  203. Castor & Pollux (Harmonic Canon II) 0:48 (2015)
  204. Cloud-Chamber Bowls 1:50 (2015)
  205. Harmonic Canon I 1:15 (2015)
  206. Gourd Tree & Cone Gong 1:49 (2015)
  207. Hand Instruments, Partch in Epilogue 3:04 (2015)
  208. Eleven Intrusions – The Street 2:43 (01 Mar 2018)
  209. Ulysses at the Edge of the World (A Minor Adventure in Rhythm) 6:20 (07 Jun 2019)
  210. 12 Intrusions: No. 1, Study on Olympus' Pentatonic 1:16 (07 Jun 2019)
  211. 12 Intrusions: No. 2, Study on Archytas' Enharmonic 2:28 (07 Jun 2019)
  212. 12 Intrusions: No. 3, The Rose 1:51 (07 Jun 2019)
  213. 12 Intrusions: No. 4, The Crane 1:46 (07 Jun 2019)
  214. 12 Intrusions: No. 5, The Waterfall 1:10 (07 Jun 2019)
  215. 12 Intrusions: No. 6, The Wind 1:52 (07 Jun 2019)
  216. 12 Intrusions: No. 7, The Street 3:15 (07 Jun 2019)
  217. 12 Intrusions: No. 8, The Letter 2:53 (07 Jun 2019)
  218. 12 Intrusions: No. 9, Lover 2:22 (07 Jun 2019)
  219. 12 Intrusions: No. 10, Soldiers - War - Another War 2:53 (07 Jun 2019)
  220. 12 Intrusions: No. 11, Vanity 0:49 (07 Jun 2019)
  221. 12 Intrusions: No. 12, Cloud Chamber Music 4:03 (07 Jun 2019)
  222. Windsong: I. Narration 1:13 (07 Jun 2019)
  223. Windsong: II. Windsong 17:50 (07 Jun 2019)
  224. Sonata Dementia: I. Abstraction & Delusion 3:04 (07 Jun 2019)
  225. Sonata Dementia: II. Scherzo Schizophrenia 2:05 (07 Jun 2019)
  226. Sonata Dementia: III. Allegro Paranoia 4:12 (07 Jun 2019)
  227. Canción de los Muchachos 1:47 (07 Jun 2019)
  228. The Wayward, Pt. 1 "8 Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California": Introduction 2:45 (07 Jun 2019)
  229. The Wayward, Pt. 1 "8 Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California": No. 1, Barstow 9:02 (07 Jun 2019)
  230. U.S. Highball (1946) 29:20 (07 Apr 2021)
  231. Introduction. True & Tempered Intervals 9:08 (20 Aug 2021)
  232. Scales 2:14 (20 Aug 2021)
  233. Progressions Within One Octave 4:26 (20 Aug 2021)
  234. Setting Texts 7:12 (20 Aug 2021)
  235. 2 Psalms: No. 1. The Lord Is My Shepherd 2:46 (20 Aug 2021)
  236. Intro to "A Dream" 2:51 (20 Aug 2021)
  237. 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 10b. A Dream 5:02 (20 Aug 2021)
  238. 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 2. On the City Street 0:31 (20 Aug 2021)
  239. 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 3. An Encounter in the Field 0:44 (20 Aug 2021)
  240. 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 7. The Night of Sorrow 1:37 (20 Aug 2021)
  241. 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 13. With a Man of Leisure 1:14 (20 Aug 2021)
  242. 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 14. A Midnight Farewell 1:20 (20 Aug 2021)
  243. Intro to "I Am a Peach Tree" 0:47 (20 Aug 2021)
  244. 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 17. I Am a Peach Tree 2:33 (20 Aug 2021)
  245. Intro "Barstow" 3:18 (20 Aug 2021)
  246. Before 1:09 (20 Aug 2021)
  247. After 1:09 (20 Aug 2021)
  248. Harmonic Canon II 0:48 ()