Harry Partch Songtexte
Revelation in the Courthouse Park - Chorus One

1. Eleven Intrusions: I. Study on Olympos' Pentatonic
2. Eleven Intrusions: II. Study on Archytas' Enharmonic
3. Eleven Intrusions: III. The Rose
4. Eleven Intrusions: IV. The Crane
5. Eleven Intrusions: V. The Waterfall
6. Eleven Intrusions: VI. The Wind
7. Eleven Intrusions: VII. The Street
8. Eleven Intrusions: VIII. Lover
9. Eleven Intrusions: IX. Soldiers - War - Another War
10. Eleven Intrusions: X. Vanity
11. Eleven Intrusions: XI. Cloud-Chamber Music
12. Castor & Pollux, A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini: I. Castor
13. Castor & Pollux, A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini: II. Pollux
14. Ring Around the Moon, A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now: Phase One. Well, bless my soul! (Well, bless my soul!)
15. Ring Around the Moon, A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now: Phase Two. One, Two, Three - X, Y, Z
16. Ring Around the Moon, A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now: Phase Three. Shake hands now, boys, and at the sound of the bell come out fighting!
17. Ring Around the Moon, A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now: Phase Four. Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoity toity, hotsy totsy, acey deucy, hoochy-koochy (Look out! He's got a gun!)
18. Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act I Scene 1. A Decent and Honorable Mistake (Samba)
19. Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act I, Scene 2. Rhythm of the Womb - Melody of the Grave (Heartbeat Rhythm)
20. Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act I, Scene 3. Happy Birthday to You! (Afro-Chinese Minuet)
21. Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act II, Scene 1. "Nor These Lips Upon Your Eyes" (Rumba)
22. Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act II, Scene 2. "Hunger, Thirst, Shouts, Dance!" (Ñañiga)
23. Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act II, Scene 3. "Land of Darkness and of Whirlwinds" (Slow, Fast, Wild!)
24. Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act III, Scene 1. "Had I Not Once a Lovely Youth?" (Conga)
25. Even Wild Horses, Dance Music for an Absent Drama: Act III, Scene 2. "Let Us Contemplate Undazed the Endless Reaches of My Innocence" (Tahitian Dance)
26. Ulysses at the Edge

1. Prologue: The Lost Musicians Mix Magic
2. Scene 1: Three Undergrads Become Transfigured in a Hong Kong Music Hall
3. Scene 2: Exercises in Harmony and Counterpoint Are Tried in a Court of Ancient Ritual
4. Scene 3: The Romancing of a Pathological Liar Comes to an Inspired End
5. Scene 4: A Soul Tormented by Contemporary Music Finds a Humanizing Alchemy
6. Scene 5: Visions Fill the Eyes of a Defeated Basketball Team in the Shower Room
7. Scene 6: Euphoria Descends a Sausalito Stairway
8. Scene 7: Two Detectives on the Tail of a Tricky Culprit Turn in Their Badges
9. Scene 8: A Court in Its Own Contempt Rises to a Motherly Apotheosis
10. Scene 9: A Lost Political Soul Finds Himself Among the Voteless Women of Paradise
11. Scene 10: The Cognoscenti Are Plunged Into a Demonic Descent While at Cocktails

1. The Long Departed Lover
2. On the City Street
3. An Encounter In The Field
4. The Intruder
5. On Ascending the Sin-Ping Tower
6. In the Springtime on the South Side of the Yangtze Kiang
7. The Night of Sorrow
8. On Hearing the Flute in the Yellow Crane House
9. On Hearing the Flute at Lo-Cheng One Spring Night (2)
10. A Dream
11. On Seeing Off Meng Hao-Jan
12. On the Ship of Spice-wood
13. With A Man Of Leisure
14. A Midnight Farewell (2)
15. Before The Cask Of Wine (2)
16. By The Great Wall
17. I Am A Peach Tree

1. I Am Harry Partch
2. By The Rivers Of Babylon (137th Psalm)
3. Texts And Music: A Wagnerian Wrestling Match
4. A Dream
5. An Encounter In The Field
6. On Hearing The Flute
7. The Intruder
8. I Am A Peach Tree
9. With A Man Of Leisure
10. A Midnight Farewell
11. Before The Cask Of Wine
12. On The Ship Of Spicewood
13. By The Great Wall
14. The Use Of English In Serious Music
15. Barstow — Eight Hitch-hikers' Inscriptions From A Highway Railing At Barstow, California
16. San Francisco — Newsboys Cries
17. Life Is Too Precious To Spend It With Important People
18. U.S. Highball — A Musical Account Of Slim's Transcontinental Hobo Trip
19. While My Heart Keeps Beating Time
20. San Francisco II

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1. I'm Going To Start Right Off By Giving You Some Sounds…
2. Isobel
3. Annah The Allmaziful
4. Dark Brother
5. Prelude To Talk
6. Introduction To Examples Of Intonation
7. Scale Of Olympos (Pentatonic)
8. Enharmonic Scale Of Archytas; Separated By 3/2's; Triads
9. Scale Of Pythagoras; Separated By 3/2's; Triads
10. Ptolemaic Intense Diatonic; Separated By 3/2's; Triads
11. Ptolemy's Equable Diatonic; Separated By 3/2's
12. Terpander's Hexatonic
13. Close Degrees
14. True And Tempered Triads
15. Resolutions From P. 186 Of Genesis Of A Music; Resolution P. 187; "Familiar" Resolution
16. Fox-Strangeways Resolutions
17. Tonal Flux From Genesis, P. 188; Tonal Flux From The Letter And Third Chorus Of Oedipus; Another From P. 188; Tonal Flux From Antiphony Of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…"
18. Multiple Tonal Senses From Antiphony Of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…"
19. Multiple Tonal Senses From Dark Brother, "And We Who Were Lost Are Found Again…"; "Until Our Hearts Are Corrupted, Out Talent Wasted, And Our Hope Gone."; "Have We Not Known Triumph, Joy, And Glory On This Earth?"
20. Melodic Subtleties From The Street, "Down Maxwell Street, Where The Prostitutes Stand In The Gloom…", U.S. Highball, "Back To The Freights For You, Boy."
21. Melodic Subtleties From The Bewitched
22. Instrumental Tunings: Harmonic Canon I As Iin Revelation; Petals; Chromelodeon Two Sets Of Reeds; Revelation
23. Dissonances And Consonance: Coda To Oedipus; Coda To Revelation

Extracts From Bitter Music, A Hobo Journal

1. June 11, 1935 — Santa Rosa, California
2. June 12 — Federal Shelter, Stockton
3. June 13
4. June 14
5. June 16 — Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta
6. June 17
7. July 4
8. July 14
9. July 16
10. July 19
11. July 20 — Heading North, Between Sacramento And Redding
12. July 24 — Federal Shelter, Portland
13. July 25 — Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington
14. July 27
15. July 29
16. July 30
17. August 7 — Between Grants Pass And Klamath Falls, Oregon
18. August 15
19. October 22 — Nearing Monterey
20. October 24 — Leaving Big Sur
21. October 25 — Near Slate's Hot Springs
22. October 26
23. October 27
24. October 28
25. October 29
26. October 30 — Big Creek
27. November 12 — Santa Barbara
28. November 14
29. November 15 — Leaving Santa Barbara
30. November 16 — Ojai
31. November 17
32. November 23 — Los Angeles
33. November 28
34. December 4
35. December, 1935
36. February 1, 1936 — San Bernardino

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1. Yankee Doodle Birds
2. Y.D. Fantasy — On The Words Of An Early American Tune
3. O Frabjous Day!
4. You Are Charged With Being Guilty. Are You Drunk Or Not?
5. Ring Around The Moon — A Dance Fantasm For Here And Now
6. Bless This Home
7. Harry's Wake