Harry Partch

Author : Harry Partch
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1979-08-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 030680106X

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Genesis Of A Music by Harry Partch Pdf

Among the few truly experimental composers in our cultural history, Harry Partch's life (1901–1974) and music embody most completely the quintessential American rootlessness, isolation, pre-civilized cult of experience, and dichotomy of practical invention and transcendental visions. Having lived mostly in the remote deserts of Arizona and New Mexico with no access to formal training, Partch naturally created theatrical ritualistic works incorporating Indian chants, Japanese kabuki and Noh, Polynesian microtones, Balinese gamelan, Greek tragedy, dance, mime, and sardonic commentary on Hollywood and commercial pop music of modern civilization. First published in 1949, Genesis of a Music is the manifesto of Partch's radical compositional practice and instruments (which owe nothing to the 300-year-old European tradition of Western music.) He contrasts Abstract and Corporeal music, proclaiming the latter as the vital, emotionally tactile form derived from the spoken word (like Greek, Chinese, Arabic, and Indian musics) and surveys the history of world music at length from this perspective. Parts II, III, and IV explain Partch's theories of scales, intonation, and instrument construction with copious acoustical and mathematical documentation. Anyone with a musically creative attitude, whether or not familiar with traditional music theory, will find this book revelatory.

Author : David Dunn
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 9057550652

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Harry Partch by David Dunn Pdf

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Harry Partch
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252069137

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Bitter Music by Harry Partch Pdf

Now in paper for the first time, Bitter Music is a generous volume of writings by one of the twentieth century's great musical iconoclasts. Rejecting the equal temperament and concert traditions that have dominated western music, Harry Partch adopted the pure intervals of just intonation and devised a 43-tone-to-the-octave scale, which in turn forced him into inventing numerous musical instruments. His compositions realize his ideal of a corporeal music that unites music, dance, and theater. Winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, Bitter Music includes two journals kept by Partch, one while wandering the West Coast during the Depression and the other while hiking the rugged northern California coastline. It also includes essays and discussions by Partch of his own compositions, as well as librettos and scenarios for six major narrative/dramatic compositions.

Author : Bob Gilmore
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300065213

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Harry Partch by Bob Gilmore Pdf

Visionary composer, theorist, and creator of musical instruments, Harry Partch (1901-1974) was a leading figure in the development of an indigenously American contemporary music. A pioneer in his explorations of new instruments and new tunings, Partch created multimedia theater works that combine sight and sound in a compelling synthesis. He is acknowledged as a major inspiration to postwar experimental composers as diverse as György Ligeti, Lou Harrison, Philip Glass, and Laurie Anderson, and his book Genesis of a Music, first published in 1949, is now considered a classic. This book is the first to tell the complete story of Partch's life and work. Drawing on interviews with many of Partch's associates and on the complete archives of the Harry Partch Estate, Bob Gilmore provides a full and sympathetic portrait of this extraordinary creative artist. He describes Partch's complicated relationships with friends, patrons, the musical establishment, and the world at large. He traces Partch's upbringing in the remote desert towns of the Southwest, his explosive encounter with formal music education in Los Angeles, and his revolutionary course as a composer that began with an interest in the musicality of speech patterns. After immersing himself in hobo subculture during the Depression, Partch came to occupy a lonely and uncompromising position as a cultural outsider. Richly fascinating in themselves, Partch's compositions, writings, and life also have much to reveal about American society and the creative impulses of the artistic avant-garde.

Author : S. Andrew Granade
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580464956

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Harry Partch, Hobo Composer by S. Andrew Granade Pdf

Examines the impact of Harry Partch's hobo years from a variety of perspectives, exploring how the composer both engaged and frustrated popular conceptions of the hobo.

Author : Michael Broyles
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300127898

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Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music by Michael Broyles Pdf

From colonial times to the present, American composers have lived on the fringes of society and defined themselves in large part as outsiders. In this stimulating book Michael Broyles considers the tradition of maverick composers and explores what these mavericks reveal about American attitudes toward the arts and about American society itself. Broyles starts by examining the careers of three notably unconventional composers: William Billings in the eighteenth century, Anthony Philip Heinrich in the nineteenth, and Charles Ives in the twentieth. All three had unusual lives, wrote music that many considered incomprehensible, and are now recognized as key figures in the development of American music. Broyles goes on to investigate the proliferation of eccentric individualism in all types of American music—classical, popular, and jazz—and how it has come to dominate the image of diverse creative artists from John Cage to Frank Zappa. The history of the maverick tradition, Broyles shows, has much to tell us about the role of music in American culture and the tension between individualism and community in the American consciousness.

Author : Harry Partch,Philip Blackburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : MINN:31951D00172259R

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Harry Partch by Harry Partch,Philip Blackburn Pdf

Author : Ben Johnston
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780895794680

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Barstow by Ben Johnston Pdf

Author : Thomas D. Rossing
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 9810241585

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Science of Percussion Instruments by Thomas D. Rossing Pdf

"What singles this book out is the sheer diversity of instruments covered this is a very welcome book. It is fair to say that the science of percussion instruments would not have advanced anywhere near so far without the tireless enthusiasm and passion of Rossing and his students."Nature, 2001"It forms a very nice survey work on an entire class of musical instruments I recommend it to anyone interested in acoustics and the physics of musical instruments."American Journal of Physics, Sept 2001

Author : Matthew Kilbane
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421448138

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The Lyre Book by Matthew Kilbane Pdf

Redefines modern lyric poetry at the intersection of literary and media studies. In The Lyre Book, Matthew Kilbane urges literary scholars to consider lyric not as a genre or a reading practice but as a media condition: the generative tension between writing and sound. In addition to clarifying issues central to the study of modern poetry—including its proximity to popular song, hallowed objecthood, and seeming autonomy from historical determination—this revisionary theory of lyric presents a new history of modern US poetry as one sonorous practice among many clamorous others. Focusing on the mid-twentieth century, Kilbane traces the impact of new sound technologies on a diverse array of literary and musical works by Lorine Niedecker, Harry Partch, Louis and Celia Zukofsky, Sterling Brown, John Wheelwright, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Russell Atkins, and Helen Adam. Kilbane shows how literary critics can look to media history to illuminate poetry's social life, and how media scholars can read poetry for insight into the cultural history of technology. In this book, the lyric poem emerges as a sensitive barometer of technological change.

Author : Broadcast Music, inc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Composers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042520697

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Harry Partch by Broadcast Music, inc Pdf

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781429932882

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The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross Pdf

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Author : Joel Sachs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199939183

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Henry Cowell by Joel Sachs Pdf

Joel Sachs offers the first complete biography of one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American music. Henry Cowell, a major musical innovator of the first half of the century, left a rich body of compositions spanning a wide range of styles. But as Sachs shows, Cowell's legacy extends far beyond his music. He worked tirelessly to create organizations such as the highly influential New Music Quarterly, New Music Recordings, and the Pan-American Association of Composers, through which great talents like Ruth Crawford Seeger and Charles Ives first became known in the US and abroad. As one of the first Western advocates for World Music, he used lectures, articles, and recordings to bring other musical cultures to myriad listeners and students including John Cage and Lou Harrison, who attributed their life work to Cowell's influence. Finally, Sachs describes the tragedy of Cowell's life, being sentenced to fifteen years in San Quentin -- of which he served four -- after pleading guilty to a morals charge that even the prosecutor felt was trivial. Providing a wealth of insight into Cowell's ideas and philosophy, Joel Sachs lays out a much-needed perspective on one of the giants of twentieth-century American music.

Author : Thomas McGeary
Publisher : Brooklyn, N.Y. : Institute for Studies in American Music, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015023747903

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The Music of Harry Partch by Thomas McGeary Pdf

Author : D. A. Sonneborn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822004555686

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Corporeality in the Music-theatre of Harry Partch by D. A. Sonneborn Pdf