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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">**Harry Partch** (June 24, 1901 &ndash; September 3, 1974) was an [[United States|America]]n [[composer]] and [[musical instrument|instrument]] creator. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with [[microtonality|microtonal]] [[scale (music)|scale]]s, writing much of his [[music]] for [[custom-made instruments]] that he built himself, tuned in 11- | <div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">**Harry Partch** (June 24, 1901 &ndash; September 3, 1974) was an [[United States|America]]n [[composer]] and [[musical instrument|instrument]] creator. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with [[microtonality|microtonal]] [[scale (music)|scale]]s, writing much of his [[music]] for [[custom-made instruments]] that he built himself, tuned in [[11-limit]] [[just intonation]]. | ||
==Early life and career== | ==Early life and career== | ||
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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html"><html><head><title>Harry Partch</title></head><body><strong>Harry Partch</strong> (June 24, 1901 &amp;ndash; September 3, 1974) was an <a class="wiki_link" href="/United%20States">America</a>n <a class="wiki_link" href="/composer">composer</a> and <a class="wiki_link" href="/musical%20instrument">instrument</a> creator. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with <a class="wiki_link" href="/microtonality">microtonal</a> <a class="wiki_link" href="/scale%20%28music%29">scale</a>s, writing much of his <a class="wiki_link" href="/music">music</a> for <a class="wiki_link" href="/custom-made%20instruments">custom-made instruments</a> that he built himself, tuned in | <div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html"><html><head><title>Harry Partch</title></head><body><strong>Harry Partch</strong> (June 24, 1901 &amp;ndash; September 3, 1974) was an <a class="wiki_link" href="/United%20States">America</a>n <a class="wiki_link" href="/composer">composer</a> and <a class="wiki_link" href="/musical%20instrument">instrument</a> creator. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with <a class="wiki_link" href="/microtonality">microtonal</a> <a class="wiki_link" href="/scale%20%28music%29">scale</a>s, writing much of his <a class="wiki_link" href="/music">music</a> for <a class="wiki_link" href="/custom-made%20instruments">custom-made instruments</a> that he built himself, tuned in <a class="wiki_link" href="/11-limit">11-limit</a> <a class="wiki_link" href="/just%20intonation">just intonation</a>.<br /> | ||
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Interested in the potential musicality of <a class="wiki_link" href="/Speech%20communication">speech</a>, Partch invented and constructed instruments that could underscore the intoning voice, and he developed musical notations that accurately and practically instructed players as to how to play the instruments. His first such instrument was the ''Monophone'', later known as the ''Adapted <a class="wiki_link" href="/viola">viola</a>''. <br /> | Interested in the potential musicality of <a class="wiki_link" href="/Speech%20communication">speech</a>, Partch invented and constructed instruments that could underscore the intoning voice, and he developed musical notations that accurately and practically instructed players as to how to play the instruments. His first such instrument was the ''Monophone'', later known as the ''Adapted <a class="wiki_link" href="/viola">viola</a>''. <br /> | ||
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Partch secured a grant that allowed him to go to <a class="wiki_link" href="/London">London</a> to study the history of tuning systems and text-setting. In Dublin &lt;ref name=Dublin&gt;[<!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule: | Partch secured a grant that allowed him to go to <a class="wiki_link" href="/London">London</a> to study the history of tuning systems and text-setting. In Dublin &lt;ref name=Dublin&gt;[<!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:259:http://prosoidia.com/oedipal-opera/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://prosoidia.com/oedipal-opera/" rel="nofollow">http://prosoidia.com/oedipal-opera/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:259 --> Oedipal Opera]&lt;/ref&gt;, he met the <a class="wiki_link" href="/poet">poet</a> <a class="wiki_link" href="/William%20Butler%20Yeats">William Butler Yeats</a> with the intention of gaining Yeats' permission to write an <a class="wiki_link" href="/opera">opera</a> based on the poet's translation of <a class="wiki_link" href="/Sophocles">Sophocles</a>' ''<a class="wiki_link" href="/Oedipus%20the%20King">Oedipus the King</a>''. In his opera, Partch transcribed the inflections of actors from the Abbey Theatre reciting lines from Sophocles' play, and Partch performed this music on his Monophone while intoning &quot;By the Rivers of Babylon&quot;. Yeats responded enthusiastically, saying, &quot;A play done entirely in this way, with this wonderful instrument, and with this type of music, might really be sensational&quot;, and he gave Partch's idea his blessing.<br /> | ||
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Partch then set out to build more instruments with which to realize his burgeoning opera. However, after his grant money ran out, he was forced to return to the U.S., which was at the height of the Depression. There, he lived as a <a class="wiki_link" href="/hobo">hobo</a>, traveling around on <a class="wiki_link" href="/train">train</a>s and taking casual work where he could find it. He continued in this way for ten years, chronicling his experiences in a journal named ''Bitter Music''. The entries frequently included overheard bits of everyday vernacular <a class="wiki_link" href="/Speech%20communication">speech</a>, wherein Partch transcribed the speaker's <a class="wiki_link" href="/pitch%20%28music%29">pitch</a>es on <a class="wiki_link" href="/musical%20stave">musical stave</a>s. This technique, which had been used earlier by the <a class="wiki_link" href="/Florentine%20Camerata">Florentine Camerata</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/Berlioz">Berlioz</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/Mussorgsky">Mussorgsky</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/Debussy">Debussy</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/Schoenberg">Schoenberg</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/Leo%C5%A1%20Jan%C3%A1%C4%8Dek">Leoš Janáček</a> and others (and would be later used by <a class="wiki_link" href="/Steve%20Reich">Steve Reich</a>), was to become a standard approach to vocal scoring in Partch's work.<br /> | Partch then set out to build more instruments with which to realize his burgeoning opera. However, after his grant money ran out, he was forced to return to the U.S., which was at the height of the Depression. There, he lived as a <a class="wiki_link" href="/hobo">hobo</a>, traveling around on <a class="wiki_link" href="/train">train</a>s and taking casual work where he could find it. He continued in this way for ten years, chronicling his experiences in a journal named ''Bitter Music''. The entries frequently included overheard bits of everyday vernacular <a class="wiki_link" href="/Speech%20communication">speech</a>, wherein Partch transcribed the speaker's <a class="wiki_link" href="/pitch%20%28music%29">pitch</a>es on <a class="wiki_link" href="/musical%20stave">musical stave</a>s. This technique, which had been used earlier by the <a class="wiki_link" href="/Florentine%20Camerata">Florentine Camerata</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/Berlioz">Berlioz</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/Mussorgsky">Mussorgsky</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/Debussy">Debussy</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/Schoenberg">Schoenberg</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/Leo%C5%A1%20Jan%C3%A1%C4%8Dek">Leoš Janáček</a> and others (and would be later used by <a class="wiki_link" href="/Steve%20Reich">Steve Reich</a>), was to become a standard approach to vocal scoring in Partch's work.<br /> | ||
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In 1943, after receiving a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation, Partch was able to dedicate more time to music. He returned to his ''Oedipus Project'', although the executors of Yeats' estate refused to grant him permission to use Yeats' translation, and he had to make his own; a recording with Yeats' translation has since been released, Yeats' text having passed into the <a class="wiki_link" href="/public%20domain">public domain</a>.&lt;ref name=innova405&gt;[<!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule: | In 1943, after receiving a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation, Partch was able to dedicate more time to music. He returned to his ''Oedipus Project'', although the executors of Yeats' estate refused to grant him permission to use Yeats' translation, and he had to make his own; a recording with Yeats' translation has since been released, Yeats' text having passed into the <a class="wiki_link" href="/public%20domain">public domain</a>.&lt;ref name=innova405&gt;[<!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:260:http://www.innova.mu/artist1.asp?skuID=96 --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.innova.mu/artist1.asp?skuID=96" rel="nofollow">http://www.innova.mu/artist1.asp?skuID=96</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:260 --> Innova 405]&lt;/ref&gt; While living briefly in <a class="wiki_link" href="/Ithaca%2C%20New%20York">Ithaca, New York</a>,<!-- ws:start:WikiTextRefRule:0:&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Gilmore p.145&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; --><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup><!-- ws:end:WikiTextRefRule:0 --> he began work on ''US Highball'', a musical evocation of riding the rails as a Depression-era hobo. <br /> | ||
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In 1949, a book Partch had been working on since 1923 was eventually published as ''<a class="wiki_link" href="/Genesis%20of%20a%20Music">Genesis of a Music</a>''. It is an account of his own music with discussions of music theory and music instrument design. Today, it is considered a standard text of microtonal music theory and takes his concept of &quot;Corporeality&quot;, the fusion of all art forms with the body, as its central focus.<br /> | In 1949, a book Partch had been working on since 1923 was eventually published as ''<a class="wiki_link" href="/Genesis%20of%20a%20Music">Genesis of a Music</a>''. It is an account of his own music with discussions of music theory and music instrument design. Today, it is considered a standard text of microtonal music theory and takes his concept of &quot;Corporeality&quot;, the fusion of all art forms with the body, as its central focus.<br /> | ||
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*[<!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule: | *[<!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:262:http://www.corporeal.com/ --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.corporeal.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.corporeal.com/</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:262 --> Corporeal Meadows: Harry Partch an American Original]<br /> | ||
*[<!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule: | *[<!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:263:http://www.musicmavericks.org/features/feature_partch.html --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.musicmavericks.org/features/feature_partch.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.musicmavericks.org/features/feature_partch.html</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:263 --> American Mavericks: Harry Partch's Instruments - playable with explanations and musical examples]<br /> | ||
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*[<!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule: | *[<!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:265:http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/composer.pl?comp=142 --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/composer.pl?comp=142" rel="nofollow">http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/composer.pl?comp=142</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:265 --> Art of the States: Harry Partch - Three works by the composer]<br /> | ||
*[<!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule: | *[<!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:266:http://innova.mu/show_collection.aspx?collection=Harry%20Partch --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://innova.mu/show_collection.aspx?collection=Harry%20Partch" rel="nofollow">http://innova.mu/show_collection.aspx?collection=Harry%20Partch</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:266 --> Enclosures Series: Harry Partch's archives published as book, film and audio from innova]<br /> | ||
*[<!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule: | *[<!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:267:http://www.avantgardeproject.org/agp57/index.htm --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.avantgardeproject.org/agp57/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.avantgardeproject.org/agp57/index.htm</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:267 --> Downloadable audio from the out-of-print LP &quot;The World of Harry Partch&quot;]<br /> | ||
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*[<!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule: | *[<!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:269:http://www.pas.org/About/HofDetails.cfm?IFile=partch --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.pas.org/About/HofDetails.cfm?IFile=partch" rel="nofollow">http://www.pas.org/About/HofDetails.cfm?IFile=partch</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:269 --> PAS Hall of Fame listing for Harry Partch]<br /> | ||
*[<!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule: | *[<!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:270:http://acousmata.com/post/83551265/a-son-in-search-of-his-fathers-face --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://acousmata.com/post/83551265/a-son-in-search-of-his-fathers-face" rel="nofollow">http://acousmata.com/post/83551265/a-son-in-search-of-his-fathers-face</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:270 --> Listen to an excerpt from Partch's &quot;Delusion of the Fury&quot; at Acousmata music blog]<br /> | ||
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<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> Gilmore p.145</li> | <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> Gilmore p.145</li> | ||
<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a> [<a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ADuyy0FeFfwC&amp;pg=PA38&amp;dq=virgil+%22harry+partch%22&amp;lr=&amp;as_drrb_is=q&amp;as_minm_is=0&amp;as_miny_is=&amp;as_maxm_is=0&amp;as_maxy_is=&amp;num=100&amp;as_brr=0&amp;cd=17#v=onepage&amp;q=virgil%20%22harry%20partch%22&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?id=ADuyy0FeFfwC&amp;pg=PA38&amp;dq=virgil+%22harry+partch%22&amp;lr=&amp;as_drrb_is=q&amp;as_minm_is=0&amp;as_miny_is=&amp;as_maxm_is=0&amp;as_maxy_is=&amp;num=100&amp;as_brr=0&amp;cd=17#v=onepage&amp;q=virgil%20%22harry%20partch%22&amp;f=false</a> Williams, Jonathan. ''A Palpable Elysium: Portraits of Genius and Solitude'', David R. Godine, 2002.]</li> | <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a> [<a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ADuyy0FeFfwC&amp;pg=PA38&amp;dq=virgil+%22harry+partch%22&amp;lr=&amp;as_drrb_is=q&amp;as_minm_is=0&amp;as_miny_is=&amp;as_maxm_is=0&amp;as_maxy_is=&amp;num=100&amp;as_brr=0&amp;cd=17#v=onepage&amp;q=virgil%20%22harry%20partch%22&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?id=ADuyy0FeFfwC&amp;pg=PA38&amp;dq=virgil+%22harry+partch%22&amp;lr=&amp;as_drrb_is=q&amp;as_minm_is=0&amp;as_miny_is=&amp;as_maxm_is=0&amp;as_maxy_is=&amp;num=100&amp;as_brr=0&amp;cd=17#v=onepage&amp;q=virgil%20%22harry%20partch%22&amp;f=false</a> Williams, Jonathan. ''A Palpable Elysium: Portraits of Genius and Solitude'', David R. Godine, 2002.]</li> | ||
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