Harry Partch Songtexte
Revelation in the Courthouse Park - Chorus One
Geboren am 24. Juni 1901, Gestorben am 03. September 1974
Harry Partch, 1942 (Live)
- Introduction. True & Tempered Intervals
- Scales
- Progressions Within One Octave
- Setting Texts
- 2 Psalms: No. 1. The Lord Is My Shepherd
- Intro to "A Dream"
- 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 10b. A Dream
- 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 2. On the City Street
- 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 3. An Encounter in the Field
- 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 7. The Night of Sorrow
- 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 13. With a Man of Leisure
- 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 14. A Midnight Farewell
- Intro to "I Am a Peach Tree"
- 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 17. I Am a Peach Tree
- Intro "Barstow"
- Barstow
- Before
- After
The Bewitched (Live)
- Prologue (live)
- Scene 1. Background for the Transfiguration of American Undergrads in a Hong Kong Music Hall (live)
- Scene 2. Background for the Permutation of Exercises in Harmony and Counterpoint (live)
- Scene 3. Background for the Inspired Romancing of a Pathological Liar (live)
- Scene 4. Background for the Alchemy of a Soul Tormented by Contemporary Music (live)
- Scene 5. Background for the Visions of a Defeated Basketball Team in the Shower Room (live)
- Scene 6. Background for the Euphoria on a Sausalito Stairway (live)
- Scene 7. Background for the Transmutation of Detectives on the Trail of a Culprit (live)
- Scene 8. Background for the Apotheosis of a Court in Its Own Contempt (live)
- Scene 9. Background for a Political Soul Lost Among the Voteless Women of Paradise (live)
- Scene 10. Background for the Demonic Descent of the Cognoscenti While Shouting Over Cocktails (live)
- Epilogue (live)
Plectra and Percussion Dances
- Castor & Pollux: Castor: Leda & the Swan (Insemination) (von Partch)
- Castor & Pollux: Castor: Conception (von Partch)
- Castor & Pollux: Castor: Incubation (von Partch)
- Castor & Pollux: Castor: Chorus of Delivery from the Egg (von Partch)
- Castor & Pollux: Pollux: Leda & the Swan (Insemination) (von Partch)
- Castor & Pollux: Pollux: Conception (von Partch)
- Castor & Pollux: Pollux: Incubation (von Partch)
- Castor & Pollux: Pollux: Chorus of Delivery from the Egg (von Partch)
- Ring Around the Moon: First Phase: “Ring Around the Moon” (von Partch)
- Ring Around the Moon: Second Phase: “One, two, three, four…” (von Partch)
- Ring Around the Moon: Third Phase: “Shake hands now boys…” (von Partch)
- Ring Around the Moon: Fourth Phase: “Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus…“ (von Partch)
- Even Wild Horses: Act I: Scene 1, A Decent and Honorable Mistake (von Partch)
- Even Wild Horses: Act I: Scene 2, Rhythm of the Womb, Melody of the Grave (von Partch)
- Even Wild Horses: Act I: Scene 3, Happy Birthday to You! (von Partch)
- Even Wild Horses: Act II: Scene 1, “Nor These Lips Upon Your Eyes” (von Partch)
- Even Wild Horses: Act II: Scene 2, “Hunger, Thirst, Shout, Dance!” (von Partch)
- Even Wild Horses: Act II: Scene 3, “Land of Darkness and of Whirlwinds” (von Partch)
- Even Wild Horses: Act III: Scene 1, “Had I Not Once a Lovely Youth?” (von Partch)
- Even Wild Horses: Act III: Scene 2, “Let Us Contemplate Undazed the Endless Reaches of My Innocence” (von Partch)
- Partch’s 1953 introduction to the live broadcast of the Premiere on KPFA-FM (Berkeley, California) (von Partch)
Bitter Music
- Preface (von Partch)
- June 11, 1935 - Santa Rosa, California (von Partch)
- June 15 - Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta (von Partch)
- June 24 - Today is my birthday… (von Partch)
- London, October 1934 (von Partch)
- “By the Rivers of Babylon” (von Partch)
- I draw my last bow, and there is silence… (von Partch)
- Wimbleton, London, March 1935 (von Partch)
- Harrington Ranch, June 24, 1935 (von Partch)
- July 20 - Heading north, between Sacramento and Redding (von Partch)
- July 25 - Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington (von Partch)
- August 5 - Toledo (von Partch)
- August 11 - SERA Camp, Ingot (von Partch)
- September 1 - Cisco (von Partch)
- October 22 - Nearing Monterey (von Partch)
- “Letter from Hobo Pablo” (von Partch)
- Near Lodi I cut the huge Tokays… (von Partch)
- October 24 - Leaving Big Sur (von Partch)
- October 30 - Big Creek (von Partch)
- November 15 - Leaving Santa Barbara (von Partch)
- December 7, 1935 - Night. Four black walls - (von Partch)
- February 1, 1936 - San Bernardino (von Partch)
- Postlude - Harry Partch on Bitter Music - Encinitas, 1969 (von Partch)
