Composers: Harry Partch
Compositions: Ulysses at the Edge of the World – A Minor Adventure in Rhythm, Twelve Intrusions, Windsong, Sonata Dementia, Cancion de Los Muchachos, Eight Hitchhiker’s Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California
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Harry Partch was a 20th-century musical vagabond. Struggling to find secure work during the Great Depression, he took to wandering the countryside where, in a notepad, he notated speech inflections of people met along the way. Partch had a fascination with the human voice and sought to challenge the dominance of instrumental music over Western classical music. Since the time of Bach, equal temperament had won out, he...
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