Harry Partch - Bitter Music: August 15

Bitter Music: August 15

by Harry Partch

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1. I am Harry Partch

2. By the Rivers of Babylon

3. Texts and Music: A Wagnerian Wrestling Match

4. 17 Lyrics of Li Po: A Dream

5. 17 Lyrics of Li Po: An Encounter in the Field

6. 17 Lyrics of Li Po: On Hearing the Flute

7. 17 Lyrics of Li Po: The Intruder

8. 17 Lyrics of Li Po: I am a Peach Tree

9. 17 Lyrics of Li Po: With a Man of Leisure

10. 17 Lyrics of Li Po: A Midnight Farewell

11. 17 Lyrics of Li Po: Before the Cask of Wine

12. 17 Lyrics of Li Po: On the Ship of Spicewood

13. 17 Lyrics of Li Po: By the Great Wall

14. The Use of English in Serious Music

15. Barstow: 8 Hitchhikers' Inscriptions

16. San Francisco: a Setting of the Cries of Two Newsboys on a Foggy Night in the Twenties

17. Life Is Too Precious to Spend It With Important People

18. US Highball: a Musical Account of a Transcontinental Hobo Trip

19. My Heart Keeps Beating Time

20. San Francisco II

1. I'm Going to Start Right Off By Giving You Some Sounds…

2. 2 Settings from Finnegans Wake: No. 1. Isobel

3. 2 Settings from Finnegans Wake: No. 2. Annah the Allmaziful

4. Dark Brother

5. A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Prelude to Talk

6. A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Introduction to Examples Oo Intonation

7. A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Scale of Olympos (Pentatonic)

8. A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Enharmonic Scale of Archytas; Separated by 3/2's; Triads

9. A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Scale of Pythagoras; Separated by 3/2's; Triads

10. A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Ptolemaic Intense Diatonic; Separated by 3/2's; Triads

11. A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Ptolemy's Equable Diatonic; Separated by 3/2's

12. A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Terpander's Hexatonic

13. A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Close Degrees

14. A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: True and Tempered Triads

15. A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Resolutions from p. 186 of Genesis of a Music; Resolution p. 187; "Familiar" Resolution

16. A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Fox-Strangeways Resolutions

17. A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Tonal Flux from Genesis, p. 188; Tonal Flux from The Letter and Third Chorus of Oedipus; Another p. 188; Tonal Flux from Antiphony of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…"

18. A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Multiple Tonal Senses from Antiphony of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…"

19. A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Multiple Tonal Senses from Dark Brother, "and we who were lost are found again…"

20. A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: 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. A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Melodic Subtleties from The Bewitched

22. A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Instrumental Tunings: Harmonic Canon I as in Revelation; Petals; Chromelodeon two sets of reeds; Revelation

23. A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Dissonances and Consonance: Coda to Oedipus; Coda to Revelation

1. Bitter Music: June 11, 1935 — Santa Rosa, California

2. Bitter Music: June 12 — Federal Shelter, Stockton

3. Bitter Music: June 13

4. Bitter Music: June 14

5. Bitter Music: June 16 — Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta

6. Bitter Music: June 17

7. Bitter Music: July 4

8. Bitter Music: July 14

9. Bitter Music: July 16

10. Bitter Music: July 19

11. Bitter Music: July 20 — Heading North, Between Sacramento and Redding

12. Bitter Music: July 24 — Federal Shelter, Portland

13. Bitter Music: July 25 — Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington

14. Bitter Music: July 27

15. Bitter Music: July 29

16. Bitter Music: July 30

17. Bitter Music: August 7 — Between Grants Pass and Klamath Falls, Oregon

18. Bitter Music: August 15

19. Bitter Music: October 22 — Nearing Monterey

20. Bitter Music: October 24 — Leaving Big Sur

21. Bitter Music: October 25 — Near Slate's Hot Springs

22. Bitter Music: October 26

23. Bitter Music: October 27

24. Bitter Music: October 28

25. Bitter Music: October 29

26. Bitter Music: October 30 — Big Creek

27. Bitter Music: November 12 — Santa Barbara

28. Bitter Music: November 14

29. Bitter Music: November 15 — Leaving Santa Barbara

30. Bitter Music: November 16 — Ojai