Album
Enclosure II
1995 • Experimental, New Classical • Anthology, Gay, Homemade Instruments, Microtonal
1
I am Harry Partch
0:24
2
By the Rivers of Babylon
3:25
3
Texts and Music: A Wagnerian Wrestling Match
1:22
4
17 Lyrics of Li Po: A Dream
4:34
5
17 Lyrics of Li Po: An Encounter in the Field
0:47
6
17 Lyrics of Li Po: On Hearing the Flute
1:00
7
17 Lyrics of Li Po: The Intruder
1:09
8
17 Lyrics of Li Po: I am a Peach Tree
1:26
9
17 Lyrics of Li Po: With a Man of Leisure
0:47
10
17 Lyrics of Li Po: A Midnight Farewell
1:18
11
17 Lyrics of Li Po: Before the Cask of Wine
2:10
12
17 Lyrics of Li Po: On the Ship of Spicewood
2:31
13
17 Lyrics of Li Po: By the Great Wall
1:56
14
The Use of English in Serious Music
0:57
15
Barstow: 8 Hitchhikers' Inscriptions
8:26
16
San Francisco: a Setting of the Cries of Two Newsboys on a Foggy Night in the Twenties
2:29
17
Life Is Too Precious to Spend It With Important People
1:29
18
US Highball: a Musical Account of a Transcontinental Hobo Trip
26:45
19
My Heart Keeps Beating Time
1:36
20
San Francisco II
2:50
21
I'm Going to Start Right Off By Giving You Some Sounds…
0:30
22
2 Settings from Finnegans Wake: No. 1. Isobel
2:53
23
2 Settings from Finnegans Wake: No. 2. Annah the Allmaziful
2:20
24
Dark Brother
7:37
25
A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Prelude to Talk
2:14
26
A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Introduction to Examples Oo Intonation
6:05
27
A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Scale of Olympos (Pentatonic)
1:05
28
A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Enharmonic Scale of Archytas; Separated by 3/2's; Triads
1:35
29
A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Scale of Pythagoras; Separated by 3/2's; Triads
1:07
30
A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Ptolemaic Intense Diatonic; Separated by 3/2's; Triads
0:53
31
A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Ptolemy's Equable Diatonic; Separated by 3/2's
1:24
32
A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Terpander's Hexatonic
1:52
33
A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Close Degrees
1:08
34
A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: True and Tempered Triads
1:23
35
A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Resolutions from p. 186 of Genesis of a Music; Resolution p. 187; "Familiar" Resolution
2:24
36
A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Fox-Strangeways Resolutions
2:27
37
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…"
3:56
38
A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Multiple Tonal Senses from Antiphony of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…"
2:39
39
A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Multiple Tonal Senses from Dark Brother, "and we who were lost are found again…"
4:04
40
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."
1:45
41
A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Melodic Subtleties from The Bewitched
6:12
42
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
43
A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Dissonances and Consonance: Coda to Oedipus; Coda to Revelation
6:52
44
Bitter Music: June 11, 1935 — Santa Rosa, California
0:27
45
Bitter Music: June 12 — Federal Shelter, Stockton
3:36
46
Bitter Music: June 13
1:28
47
Bitter Music: June 14
2:22
48
Bitter Music: June 16 — Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta
3:27
49
Bitter Music: June 17
0:26
50
Bitter Music: July 4
3:50

One Sheet
A Partch lecture on just intonation, interviews with Partch and his comments on a variety of topics, a newly recorded performance of excerpts from his 1935 hobo journal Bitter Music, and a sound documentary featuring Partch at the piano and reminiscences by his friends. This is the recording that helped start the re-awakening of Partch’s legacy.
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Release Date
January 1, 1995
Catalog Number
#401