The American composer Harry Partch (1901-1974) composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, derived from the natural Harmonic series;...
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Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. He composed using...
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The American composer Harry Partch (1901–1974) composed in musical tunings not available on conventional Western instruments. Instead, he developed a 43-tone...
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"juststrokerods," metal instruments tuned to subsets of Harry Partch's 43-tone microtonal scale. After Partch's death in 1974, Partch's instruments had fallen into...
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Boobam (category Pitched percussion instruments)
the tube. In 1948 Harry Partch, an American composer, developed a system of music that depended on the building of various instruments that could play non-tempered...
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Genesis of a Music (category Harry Partch)
Genesis of a Music is a book first published in 1949 by microtonal composer Harry Partch (1901–1974). Partch first presents a polemic against both equal temperament...
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music. Also other builders like Yuri Landman, Harry Partch (for example his famous cloud chamber bowl instrument), Pierre Bastien, Iner Souster often incorporate...
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Partch is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Harry Partch (1901–1974), American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments...
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diamond previously devised by Max Friedrich Meyer and refined by Harry Partch.[failed verification] The first of Partch's "four concepts" is "The scale...
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Dean Drummond (category Pupils of Harry Partch)
invented a 31-tone instrument called the zoomoozophone in 1978. From 1990 to his death he was the conservator of the Harry Partch instrumentarium. Born...
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Limit (music) (category Harry Partch)
limit was introduced by Harry Partch, who used it to give an upper bound on the complexity of harmony; hence the name. Harry Partch, Ivor Darreg, and Ralph...
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Tonality diamond (category Harry Partch)
n-limit. Although originally invented by Max Friedrich Meyer, the tonality diamond is now most associated with Harry Partch ("Many theorists of just intonation...
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experimental musical instruments, such as Luigi Russolo (1885–1947), Harry Partch (1901–1974), and John Cage (1912–1992), were not well received by the public at...
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Xylophone-player, photo by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas Bala, African xylophone Bamboo marimba, one of the instruments created by Harry Partch bamboo flutes Bansuri...
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including works by Lou Harrison, LaMonte Young, John Cage, and Harry Partch. He often arranges pieces for guitar and other instruments such as harp or...
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Delusion of the Fury (category Harry Partch)
Delusion of the Fury is a stage play by the American composer Harry Partch that is based on a Japanese Noh drama. The first draft for singers, mimes,...
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Otonality and utonality (category Harry Partch)
Otonality and utonality are terms introduced by Harry Partch to describe chords whose pitch classes are the harmonics or subharmonics of a given fixed...
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dynasty. Kithara (musical instrument), ancient Greek lyre. Kithara (Harry Partch), a third-bridge zither created by Harry Partch. Misa Kitara, a guitar-shaped...
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Freeman financed a 1973 documentary film about the composer and instrument builder Harry Partch, The Dreamer That Remains. She subsequently developed an interest...
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after working with Harry Partch in the mid-1950s. The lujon is played with soft mallets and produces a sound that is dominated by its fundamental frequency...
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Senada may have been the famous avant-garde composer and instrument designer Harry Partch, the influence of whose work may be heard in Residents compositions...
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John Cage, Harry Partch, Edgard Varèse, and Peter Schickele, all noted composers, created entire pieces of music using unconventional instruments. Beginning...
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Anarchestra (category American musical instruments)
frugality, and lots of childlike whimsy. Some creations recall instrument maker Harry Partch (who also composed), but are far more Road Warrior-esque. Some...
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1080/07494460701671566. ISSN 0749-4467. S2CID 191559064. "Our Rainy Season, by Kraig Grady". Anaphoria. Retrieved 2023-01-14. "sr/cl::works". www.sacredrealism...
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H'arpeggione Hardanger fiddle Herati dutar Hurdy-gurdy Kithara (of Harry Partch) Koto Some instruments of the lute family Mohan veena Moodswinger Moonlander Nyckelharpa...
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performed by no:Cikada Ensemble (no:2L, 2015) Erbe: Neue Werke Für Harry Partch Instrumente (Legacy: New Works for Harry Partch Instruments) performed by de:Ensemble...
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useless for how this instrument is played. The scale of harmonics was, together with the book of Helmholtz an inspiration for Harry Partch to switch to just...
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score for Windsong was written by Harry Partch, who played 10 different instruments for the film. He was inspired by the playful imagery of Tourtelot...
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Metallophone (category Keyboard percussion instruments)
microtonal tunings are used in Iannis Xenakis' Pléïades and in the music of Harry Partch. Metallophones are a subset, made of metal, of Hornbostel-Sachs category...
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Erv Wilson (section Musicians influenced by Wilson)
Wilson built instruments and explored the resources of 31 and 41 equal divisions of the octave. He supported the work of Harry Partch, proposing the...
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