Harry Partch
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales. He built custom-made instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions, and described his theory and practice in his book Genesis of a Music (1947).
Partch composed with scales dividing the octave into 43 unequal tones derived from the natural harmonic series; these scales allowed for more tones of smaller intervals than in standard Western tuning, which uses twelve equal intervals to the octave. To play his music, Partch built a large number of unique instruments, with such names as the Chromelodeon, the Quadrangularis Reversum, and the Zymo-Xyl. Partch described his music as corporeal, and distinguished it from abstract music, which he perceived as the dominant trend in Western music since the time of Bach. His earliest compositions were small-scale pieces to be intoned to instrumental backing; his later works were large-scale, integrated theater productions in which he expected each of the performers to sing, dance, speak, and play instruments. Ancient Greek theatre and Japanese Noh and kabuki heavily influenced his music theatre.
A Dream
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Music
A Dream (Common song)
"A Dream" is a single by rapper Common from the soundtrack to Freedom Writers. It is produced by will.i.am, who also sings the song's chorus. The song heavily samples Martin Luther King Jr.'s historical "I Have a Dream" speech, which relates to the song's lyrics about racism. The single release of "A Dream" includes two will.i.am tracks, "Colors" and "Bus Ride."
Music video
The video for the single contains scenes from the Freedom Writers movie (many of which feature Hilary Swank, its lead actress), mixed with partially animated sequences featuring will.i.am singing on a podium and Common rapping in hallways and rooms in front of stylized images of both the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement. Television footage of the "I Have a Dream" speech is displayed on monitors throughout the video. The imagery is intended to reinforce the song's messages of perseverance in the face of discrimination, and hopes for a more racially tolerant world.
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Harry Partch
ALBUMS
- The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 3 released: 2005
- The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 1 released: 2004
- U.S. Highball (Kronos Quartet) released: 2003
- Delusion of the Fury: A Ritual of Dream and Delusion released: 1999
- The Harry Partch Collection - Vol.1 released: 1997
- The Bewitched (Members of the University of Illinois Musical Ensemble feat. conductor: John Garvey) released: 1997
- And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma released: 1966
- The World of Harry Partch released:
- Enclosure 5 released:
- Revelation in the Courthouse Park released:
- 17 Lyrics of Li Po released:
The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 3
Released 2005- The Dreamer That Remains - A Study in Loving
- Rotate the Body in All Its Planes - Ballad for Gymnasts
- Windsong
- The Opening Prologue, and the Second Prologue, in Which the Instruments Attack the Producer
- Water Criers and Lead-In Lines, O What Could He Do but Pick Her Up?
- Water Criers, and Lead-In Lines, Witch for Water. The Aldermen's Fugue on No. Wanda the Water Witch
- Santa Mystiana the Beautiful
- Water Criers. Visitors From Strange and Foreign Places: The Singer From Spoleto, and an Alabama Mockingbird - Dear Old Alabama
- We Really Love Each Other. In 43 Whines to the Octave
- Water Criers. The Baseball Game Is Called on Account of Rain!
- To Hell With the Game! Rain! Rain! The Highest Goodness Is Like Water
- Opening Epilogue (After Three Days of Rain). Ghosts, Undele, Oomph! (The Indian Ghosts dance Over Clarence's Body and Play on Liquor Bottles)
- Water Criers. Intervening Dialog. We'll Sue You for a Million!
- Do-Lo-Do-Lo - Doom! Phoebus Bids Farewell. The Indian Runners Bring News. The Final Song and Dance, Gone, Man, Gone! With the Descending Moan of the Siren Phoebus Plunges Wildly Into Nothingness.
- Eighth Epilogue - The Producer Finally Silences the Instruments. Final Epilogue: "The Highest Goodness Is Like Water."
The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 1
Released 2004- Study on Olympos' Pentatonic
- Study on Archytas' Enharmonic
- The Rose
- The Crane
- The Waterfall
- The Wind
- The Street
- Lover
- Soldiers - War - Another War
- Vanity
- Cloud-Chamber Music
- Castor
- Pollux
- Ring Around the Moon, Phase One
- Ring Around the Moon, Phase Two
- Ring Around the Moon, Phase Three
- Ring Around the Moon, Phase Four
- Even Wild Horses, Act I Scene 1
- Even Wild Horses, Act I Scene 2
- Even Wild Horses, Act I Scene 3
- Even Wild Horses, Act II Scene 1
- Even Wild Horses, Act II Scene 2
- Even Wild Horses, Act II Scene 3
- Even Wild Horses, Act III Scene 1
- Even Wild Horses, Act III Scene 2
- Ulysses at the Edge
Delusion of the Fury: A Ritual of Dream and Delusion
Released 1999- The Beginning of a Web
- Chorus of Shadows
- The Pilgrimage
- Emergence of the Spirit
- A Son in Search of His Father's Face
- Cry From Another Darkness
- Pray for Me
- An Entr'acte
- The Quiet Hobo Meal
- The Lost Kid
- Time of Fun Together
- The Misunderstanding
- Arrest, Trial and Judgement (Joy in the Marketplace!)
- Pray for Me Again - A STRANGE FEAR!
The Harry Partch Collection - Vol.1
Released 1997- Eleven Intrusions: I. Study on Olympos' Pentatonic
- Eleven Intrusions: II. Study on Archytas' Enharmonic
- Eleven Intrusions: III. The Rose
- Eleven Intrusions: IV. The Crane
- Eleven Intrusions: V. The Waterfall
- Eleven Intrusions: VI. The Wind
- Eleven Intrusions: VII. The Street
- Eleven Intrusions: VIII. Lover
- Eleven Intrusions: IX. Soldiers - War - Another War
- Eleven Intrusions: X. Vanity
- Eleven Intrusions: XI. Cloud-Chamber Music
- Castor & Pollux, A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini: I. Castor
- Castor & Pollux, A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini: II. Pollux
- Ring Around the Moon, A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now: Phase One. Well, bless my soul! (Well, bless my soul!)
- Ring Around the Moon, A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now: Phase Two. One, Two, Three - X, Y, Z
- 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!
- 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!)
- Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act I Scene 1. A Decent and Honorable Mistake (Samba)
- Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act I, Scene 2. Rhythm of the Womb - Melody of the Grave (Heartbeat Rhythm)
- Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act I, Scene 3. Happy Birthday to You! (Afro-Chinese Minuet)
- Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act II, Scene 1. "Nor These Lips Upon Your Eyes" (Rumba)
- Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act II, Scene 2. "Hunger, Thirst, Shouts, Dance!" (Ñañiga)
- Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act II, Scene 3. "Land of Darkness and of Whirlwinds" (Slow, Fast, Wild!)
- Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act III, Scene 1. "Had I Not Once a Lovely Youth?" (Conga)
- 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)
- Ulysses at the Edge
The Bewitched (Members of the University of Illinois Musical Ensemble feat. conductor: John Garvey)
Released 1997- The Bewitched: Prologue. The Lost Musicians Mix Magic
- The Bewitched: Scene 1. Three Undergrads Become Transfigured in a Hong Kong Music Hall
- The Bewitched: Scene 2. Excercises in Harmony and Counterpoint Are Tried in a Court of Ancient Ritual
- The Bewitched: Scene 3. The Romancing of a Pathological Liar Comes to an Inspired End
- The Bewitched: Scene 4. A Soul Tormented by Contemporary Music Finds a Humanizing Alchemy
- The Bewitched: Scene 5. Visions Fill the Eyes of a Defeated Basketball Team in the Shower Room
- The Bewitched: Scene 6. Euphoria Descends a Sausalito Stairway
- The Bewitched: Scene 7. Two Detectives on the Trail of a Tricky Culprit Turn in Their Badges
- The Bewitched: Scene 8. A Court in Its Own Contempt Rises to a Motherly Apothesis
- The Bewitched: Scene 9. A Lost Political Soul Finds Himself Among the Voteless Women of Paradise
- The Bewitched: Scene 10. The Cognoscenti Are Plunged Into a Demonic Descent While at Cocktails / Epilogue
Enclosure 5
- King Oedipus: Tiresias Scene (Continued)
- King Oedipus: Second Chorus
- King Oedipus: Creon Scene
- King Oedipus: Jocasta Scene
- King Oedipus: Incidental Music
- King Oedipus: Third Chorus
- King Oedipus: Messenger Scene
- King Oedipus: Fourth Chorus
- King Oedipus: Herdsman Scene
- King Oedipus: Oedipus Scene
- King Oedipus: Fifth Chorus
- King Oedipus: Instrumental Commentary
- King Oedipus: Antiphony
- King Oedipus: Exit Oedipus - Dance-Pantomime
- King Oedipus: Final Chorus
- Johann Krieger: Menuet From Partita in G
- Douglas Moore: Come Away, Death
- Come Away, Death From December, 1942
- By the Rivers of Babylon (137th Psalm)
- Introduction to the Bewitched
17 Lyrics of Li Po
- The Long Departed Lover
- On The City Street
- An Encounter in the Field
- The Intruder
- On Ascending the Sin-Ping Tower
- In the Springtime on the South Side of the Yangtze Kiang
- The Night of Sorrow
- On Hearing the Flute in the Yellow Crane House
- On Hearing the Flute at Lo-Cheng One Spring Night (2)
- A Dream
- On Seeing Off Meng Hao-Jan
- On the Ship of Spice-wood
- With a Man of Leisure
- A Midnight Farewell (2)
- Before the Cask of Wine (2)
- By the Great Wall
- I am a Peach Tree
Born: 1901-06-24
Died: 1974-09-03
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