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    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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    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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