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Harry Partch

Harry Partch has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 5 September 2014. Harry Partch's music has been featured on 11 episodes.

Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with microtonal scales, writing much of his music for instruments he built himself, tuned in 11-limit just intonation. Interested in the potential musicality of speech, Partch worked out his first extended scales to notate the inflections of the speaking voice. He built his adapted viola to demonstrate the concept. He then secured a grant, which allowed…

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Daphne Of The Dunes
Harry Partch
Columbia Masterworks1969
Daphne Of The Dunes
Harry PartchColumbia Masterworks1969
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Castor & Pollux - A Dance For The Twin Rhythms Of Gemini From Plectra & Percussion Dances
Harry Partch
Columbia Masterworks1969
Castor & Pollux - A Dance For The Twin Rhythms Of Gemini From Plectra & Percussion Dances
Harry PartchColumbia Masterworks1969
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And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma
Harry Partch
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)1989
And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma
Harry PartchComposers Recordings Inc. (CRI)1989
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The Bewitched
Harry Partch
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)1989
The Bewitched
Harry PartchComposers Recordings Inc. (CRI)1989
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Introduction To The Bewitched
Harry Partch
Innova Recordings1998
Introduction To The Bewitched
Harry PartchInnova Recordings1998
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Chorus Of Shadows
Harry Partch
CBS Masterworks0
Chorus Of Shadows
Harry PartchCBS Masterworks0
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Castor
Harry Partch
Columbia Masterworks1969
Castor
Harry PartchColumbia Masterworks1969
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Study On Olympos' Pentatonic
Harry Partch
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)1997
Study On Olympos' Pentatonic
Harry PartchComposers Recordings Inc. (CRI)1997
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“By The Rivers Of Babylon”
Harry Partch
Bridge Records2011
“By The Rivers Of Babylon”
Harry PartchBridge Records2011
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