Harry Partch
Enclosure 2
LabelInnova RecordingsGenreExperimental
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This massive 4CD set is the second "enclosure" in the series. It is sub-titled "Historic Speech-Music Recordings from the Harry Partch archives," and includes "archival recordings, including works from the 30s & 40s, a lecture on just intonation, excerpts from the 1935 hobo journal Bitter Music, and a sound documentary featuring Partch at the piano
Details
Cat. number: INNOVA 401
Year: 1970
Release notes
Subtitle: "Historic Speech-Music Recordings From The Harry Partch Archives" Includes 32-page booklet. Track 1-1 is the opening statement of the 78 r.p.m. recording of Intrusions recorded in Gualala in 1950-51, and issued by Lauriston Marshall. Track 1-3 is the introduction to Oedipus broadcast, KPFA-Berkeley, July 16, 1954. Tracks 1-14, 1-17 and 4-1 are excepts from an interview with Eugene Paul, May 30, 1970. Track 1-19 recorded August 1995. Track 1-20 recorded in concert at Südwestfunk 3,…
Tracklist
| 1-1 | I Am Harry Partch | 0:24 | |
| 1-2 | By The Rivers Of Babylon (137th Psalm) | 3:25 | |
| 1-3 | Texts And Music: A Wagnerian Wrestling Match | 1:21 | |
| Ten Li Po Lyrics | |||
| 1-4 | A Dream | 4:33 | |
| 1-5 | An Encounter In The Field | 0:48 | |
| 1-6 | On Hearing The Flute | 0:59 | |
| 1-7 | The Intruder | 1:09 | |
| 1-8 | I Am A Peach Tree | 1:25 | |
| 1-9 | With A Man Of Leisure | 0:44 | |
| 1-10 | A Midnight Farewell | 1:16 | |
| 1-11 | Before The Cask Of Wine | 2:10 | |
| 1-12 | On The Ship Of Spicewood | 2:31 | |
| 1-13 | By The Great Wall | 1:55 | |
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| 1-14 | The Use Of English In Serious Music | 0:57 | |
| 1-15 | Barstow — Eight Hitch-hikers' Inscriptions From A Highway Railing At Barstow, California | 8:26 | |
| 1-16 | San Francisco — Newsboys Cries | 2:29 | |
| 1-17 | Life Is Too Precious To Spend It With Important People | 1:29 | |
| 1-18 | U.S. Highball — A Musical Account Of Slim's Transcontinental Hobo Trip | 26:45 | |
| 1-19 | While My Heart Keeps Beating Time | 1:36 | |
| 1-20 | San Francisco II | 2:50 | |
| 2-1 | I'm Going To Start Right Off By Giving You Some Sounds… | 0:29 | |
| Two Settings From Joyce's Finnegans Wake | |||
| 2-2 | Isobel | 2:52 | |
| 2-3 | Annah The Allmaziful | 2:21 | |
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| 2-4 | Dark Brother | 7:41 | |
| A Quarter-Saw Section Of Motivations And Intonations | |||
| 2-5 | Prelude To Talk | 2:14 | |
| 2-6 | Introduction To Examples Of Intonation | 6:01 | |
| 2-7 | Scale Of Olympos (Pentatonic) | 1:03 | |
| 2-8 | Enharmonic Scale Of Archytas; Separated By 3/2's; Triads | 1:33 | |
| 2-9 | Scale Of Pythagoras; Separated By 3/2's; Triads | 1:05 | |
| 2-10 | Ptolemaic Intense Diatonic; Separated By 3/2's; Triads | 0:51 | |
| 2-11 | Ptolemy's Equable Diatonic; Separated By 3/2's | 1:22 | |
| 2-12 | Terpander's Hexatonic | 1:49 | |
| 2-13 | Close Degrees | 1:05 | |
| 2-14 | True And Tempered Triads | 1:20 | |
| 2-15 | Resolutions From P. 186 Of Genesis Of A Music; Resolution P. 187; "Familiar" Resolution | 2:21 | |
| 2-16 | Fox-Strangeways Resolutions | 2:24 | |
| 2-17 | Tonal Flux From Genesis, P. 188; Tonal Flux From The Letter And Third Chorus Of Oedipus; Another From P. 188; Tonal Flux From Antiphony Of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…" | 3:54 | |
| 2-18 | Multiple Tonal Senses From Antiphony Of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…" | 2:37 | |
| 2-19 | 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 This Earth?" | 4:02 | |
| 2-20 | 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." | 1:43 | |
| 2-21 | Melodic Subtleties From The Bewitched | 6:10 | |
| 2-22 | Instrumental Tunings: Harmonic Canon I As Iin Revelation; Petals; Chromelodeon Two Sets Of Reeds; Revelation | 10:40 | |
| 2-23 | Dissonances And Consonance: Coda To Oedipus; Coda To Revelation | 6:50 | |
| Extracts From Bitter Music, A Hobo Journal | |||
| 3-1 | June 11, 1935 — Santa Rosa, California | 0:27 | |
| 3-2 | June 12 — Federal Shelter, Stockton | 3:37 | |
| 3-3 | June 13 | 1:28 | |
| 3-4 | June 14 | 1:22 | |
| 3-5 | June 16 — Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta | 3:27 | |
| 3-6 | June 17 | 0:27 | |
| 3-7 | July 4 | 3:50 | |
| 3-8 | July 14 | 0:50 | |
| 3-9 | July 16 | 1:16 | |
| 3-10 | July 19 | 1:11 | |
| 3-11 | July 20 — Heading North, Between Sacramento And Redding | 2:24 | |
| 3-12 | July 24 — Federal Shelter, Portland | 2:25 | |
| 3-13 | July 25 — Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington | 4:16 | |
| 3-14 | July 27 | 2:33 | |
| 3-15 | July 29 | 0:25 | |
| 3-16 | July 30 | 0:29 | |
| 3-17 | August 7 — Between Grants Pass And Klamath Falls, Oregon | 1:56 | |
| 3-18 | August 15 | 1:31 | |
| 3-19 | October 22 — Nearing Monterey | 5:01 | |
| 3-20 | October 24 — Leaving Big Sur | 2:33 | |
| 3-21 | October 25 — Near Slate's Hot Springs | 2:56 | |
| 3-22 | October 26 | 1:22 | |
| 3-23 | October 27 | 0:35 | |
| 3-24 | October 28 | 0:17 | |
| 3-25 | October 29 | 1:28 | |
| 3-26 | October 30 — Big Creek | 0:53 | |
| 3-27 | November 12 — Santa Barbara | 2:23 | |
| 3-28 | November 14 | 0:31 | |
| 3-29 | November 15 — Leaving Santa Barbara | 4:17 | |
| 3-30 | November 16 — Ojai | 0:57 | |
| 3-31 | November 17 | 1:02 | |
| 3-32 | November 23 — Los Angeles | 0:29 | |
| 3-33 | November 28 | 0:19 | |
| 3-34 | December 4 | 0:42 | |
| 3-35 | December, 1935 | 8:44 | |
| 3-36 | February 1, 1936 — San Bernardino | 4:00 | |
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| 4-1 | Yankee Doodle Birds | 0:36 | |
| 4-2 | Y.D. Fantasy — On The Words Of An Early American Tune | 3:54 | |
| 4-3 | O Frabjous Day! | 3:10 | |
| 4-4 | You Are Charged With Being Guilty. Are You Drunk Or Not? | 1:02 | |
| 4-5 | Ring Around The Moon — A Dance Fantasm For Here And Now | 9:00 | |
| 4-6 | Bless This Home | 3:21 | |
| 4-7 | Harry's Wake | 46:23 | |
Credits
- Garry Havrillay
- Engineer (3-1 to 3-36)
- Sheila Guymer
- Piano (3-1 to 3-36)
- Lydia Warren
- Producer (3-1 to 3-36)
- Dr. Philip Blackburn
- Producer
- Warren Gilson
- Recorded By (1-2, 1-4 to 1-13, 1-15, 1-16, 1-18, 2-2 to 2-4, 4-2)
- Harry Partch
- Viola [Adapated] (1-2, 1-4 to 1-13, 1-16, 2-4, 4-6), Voice (1-4 to 1-13, 1-15, 1-16, 1-18, 4-6)
- Warren Burt
- Voice (3-1 to 3-36)
- William Wendlandt
- Voice (1-4 to 1-13, 1-15)
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