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.
Artist
Composer
Performers
Release Date
January 1, 1995
Catalog Number
#401
Composers
Andy Akiho
Performers
Alexandra Detyniecki, Andy Akiho, Candy Chiu, Domenic Salerni, Fay Wang, Ian Rosenbaum, Inhyung Hwang, John Corkill, Kenneth Salters, Mariel Roberts, Maura Valenti, Nicole Camacho, Raul Garcia, Ruby Chen, Samuel Adams, Sarah Kuchta, Suresh Singaratnam, Tiffany Kuo
