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This engaging book is the first biography of one of the great "originals" of American classical music. It provides a full portrait of Harry Partch (1901-1974), a composer, theorist, and creator of musical instruments whose life and works were marginalized and unconventional, yet who had an enormous influence on later experimental composers.. ... Read more

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5 stars plus 2 thumbs up for Gilmore
I recall Bob dropping by my fathers house in the early 90's to collect things for this book. Little did I know how many of my questions would be answered by this novel. Harry had always been that of a surrogate grandpafigure to me. I was 8 when he died, so alot has gone unanswered ever since.

Being a biography only, it fills you in with what drove Harry to do whathe did and all the stumbling blocks encountered along the way (things Ihave always wondered about).

If you are interested in Harry's musicalintsruments, corporeal philosophy, or the tuning set-up he put together, Iwould suggest getting the book he wrote "Genesis of a Music",sold here at Amazon.

In purchasing Bob's book, you will encounter a pathin which a true creative mind was once lead down, unmutilated.....GeordanMitchell

Gilmore's account of Partch's life reads like a thriller
American maverick iconclast composer mythologised his life history in his own lifetime. Astoundingly, there has previously been very little analytical/musicological or biographical information published on thisimportant and unique American composer. McGeary, in Bitter Music, assertedthat nothing COULD be known of Partch's early life. We all agreed. We werewrong. Gilmore has, like a private investigator, meticulously followed thetrail which has lain below the sand of the American deserts through whichPartch trailed. You won't need to be either a music student or particularlyinterested in Harry Partch to find this book an utterly fascinating accountof this still underrated composer, instrument-maker and'philosophic-music-man'. It stands as a chronicle of the twentieth centuryAmerican man, a tangent to the mainstream of arts culture, an importantcontribution to Depression Era art, as well as obviously to contemporarymusic and just intonation/tuning matters. ... Read more

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Highly Recommended
This book was recommended to me by James Tenney, that was enough for me. After reading it I discovered, to NO surprise, it is a must read. Tenney giving you musical advice is like EF Hutton giving you financial advice, YOU LISTEN to it very carefully.

You had to be there.
I was a part of Harry's world for a time in the mid 1950s, maybe even a colleague as well as a devotee of sorts. I took a 40 year sabbatical and am again working in the field of musical instrument design/manufacture/performance.

This book is like a bible to me in many ways but what most of the reviews lack is the experience of having "been there, heard/felt that" which is a requirement for really getting it.

All the theoretical/philosophical considerations are mere historical/philosophical blather compared to actually being around the music itself. The implications of "corporeal" in terms of making/experiencing music rather than talking *about* music are very profound. You can get some idea from sound recordings, videos/films, or Web sites but unless you take part in the experience, you have no idea what's happening here.

I'm sure plenty (most?) people who encountered it were isolated from experiencing it fully by their backgrounds (nature or nurture), but for those who were moved, his work was the palpable exemplification of "profound". His picture should appear in the dictionary entry for "genius".

Love.

Most of today's innovators started with this book
I disagree that you shouldn't start with this book.Most books that even mention the subject of JI gloss over it, insult your intelligence without providing any real data to make your own decisions, because most of the people writing those books consider JI a curiosity.If you ever read more than one reference to JI, you already know most of what most sources tell you.
Partch is certainly bombastic, which gave me many a chuckle.He was very very defensive, with good reason.
He also deals with subharmonic series- minor tonalities- which makes up a full half of his system, and which is explicitly eschewed by Doty's Primer.Doty denies there is any consonance to it and refuses to discuss it, reducing every harmony into least-common-denominators to find some sort of "absolute consonance level", which results in ratios with huge numbers that tell you nothing about the purpose of the chord.For a minor triad, Partch would say "1/4;1/5;1/6" and Doty would say 10:12:15.Partch also backs his ideas up with everyone from Archytas to Ptolemy to Galilei.
Any other book about or by Partch is focused on the novelty of his instruments, his "43 notes!!!" (which sickened him, being that he often used more or less in various pieces- it is not about the number of notes) or his feelings on life and aesthetics.Partch despised concert music- which doesn't mean a thing to me.This book gives you the facts, the background to actually be able to use the innovations Partch gave to the world.
I would recommend, in addition to this, reading George A. Miller's essay "The Magical Number 7, +/- 2" and any resources you can find on Gestalt perception and the Law of Pragnanz.Without these fundamental perceptual ideas, your 10,000-note octaves will sound like chaos.

Use as directed ONLY.
I'd give this another star, it's a very interesting artifact after all, but I'm afraid my review might be construed, as I'm afraid many readers are approaching this book the wrong way. It is not (nor is it intended to be) a just tuning reference book; it is instead a book about one man's personal musical odyssey: hence the title. If you use it to try to learn about just tuning in particular or tuning in general without already possessing a solid background in acoustics and the history of music theory, you will come away from it with a very warped viewpoint, and when you encounter those who do have a solid background in acoustics and the history of music theory you will embarrass yourself badly.

THE desk reference on Just Intonation
As a steel guitarist, I find the entire subject of Just Intonation (JI) fascinating.It's a beautiful sound, perfectly aligned with the laws ofphysics.Partch's book includes tables of all of the JI ratios, translatedinto cents.This is the ultimate reference book for anyone experimentingwith tunings.

Partch's music may not be your cup of tea, but the logicbehind it is top notch.With this book and his home-made instuments (thereare pictures and descriptions), Partch kicked open the door for the modernmicro-tonal movement.The musical universe will never be the same. ... Read more

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Chapters: Arnold Schoenberg, Henry Cowell, Harry Partch, Thomas Delio, Edward T. Cone, George Russell, David Lewin, Howard Hanson, Joseph Schillinger, James Tenney, David Carson Berry, Benjamin Boretz, Benjamin C. S. Boyle, Allen Forte, Gene Ward Smith, Felix Salzer, Fred Lerdahl, David B. Doty, Carl Schachter, Roland C. Jordan, Edward Aldwell, Paul Wilson, Heidi Von Gunden, Richard Cohn. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 143. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Arnold Schoenberg (pronounced ) (13 September 1874 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. He used the spelling Schönberg until after his move to the United States in 1934 (Steinberg 1995, 463), "in deference to American practice" (Foss 1951, 401), though one writer claims he made the change a year earlier (Ross 2007, 45). Schoenberg's approach, both in terms of harmony and development, is among the major landmarks of 20th century musical thought; at least three generations of composers in the European and American traditions have consciously extended his thinking or, in some cases, passionately reacted against it. During the rise of the Nazi party in Austria, his music was labeled, alongside jazz, as degenerate art. Schoenberg was widely known early in his career for his success in simultaneously extending the traditionally opposed German Romantic traditions of both Brahms and Wagner. Later, his name would come to personify pioneering innovations in atonality that would become the most polemical feature of 20th-century art music. In the 1920s, Schoenberg developed the twelve-tone technique, a widely influential compositional method of manipulating an ordered series of all twelve notes in the chromati...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=67025 ... Read more

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Chapters: Les Paul, Harry Partch, Timothy Gilbert, Dean Zelinsky, Leo Fender, Charlie Nothing, Larrivée, Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, Quintron, James Lick, Wolfgang Zuckermann, William Steinway, Herb David, Brian Dewan, Roger Linn, Henry E. Steinway, Abraham Wechter, Henry Hottinger Collection, Tish Ciravolo, Del Langejans, Theodore E. Steinway, Wayne Henderson, Don Randall, William Dowd, David Jacques Way, Leon Dewan, Henry Z. Steinway, James Warren York, Rock-Ola, Galanti, Orville Gibson, Okie Adams, Oliver Ackermann, Paul Mcgill, Dbz Guitars, Douglas Ewart, Sam Rizzetta, Charles G. Conn, Paul Reed Smith, Alfred Laubin, Ghs, Christian Frederick Martin, Gregg Alf, Diomedes Matos, David Monette, Russell Cook, William Colvig, Robert "Bud" Larsen, John D'angelico, Lee Santana, Brian Wittman, Milan Mike Trbovich, John Harris, Semie Moseley. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 212. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 August 12, 2009) known as Les Paul was an American jazz and country guitarist, songwriter and inventor. He was a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which "made the sound of rock and roll possible". He is credited with many recording innovations, including overdubbing (also known as sound on sound), delay effects such as tape delay, phasing effects, and multitrack recording. His innovative talents extended into his playing style, including licks, trills, chording sequences, fretting techniques and timing, which set him apart from his contemporaries and inspired many guitarists of the present day. He recorded with his wife Mary Ford in the 1950s and they sold millions of records. Among his many honors, Paul is one of a handful of artists with a permanent, stand-alone exhibit in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is prominent...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=145712 ... Read more

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Bitter Music
This collection is a great insight into the thought and creative process of one of America's most fascinating composers.Passionate, original, non-academic, this collection exemplifies a mind committed to the working out of ideas.The early journals, essays mostly from the middle years and librettos from later work - it's not necessarily a cohesive body of work but it's a welcome antidote to the memoirs of more academic composers whose work slices smaller and smaller into a worked ground.Parallel with Partch's search for the sounds between the notes, is his search for the ideas between the ideas. Partch continually questions, continually searches, as if trying to resynthesise concept and sound world in a vital performance art.You can dip into this collection repeatedly and continue to come up refreshed.

Like nothing you've ever read
Bitter Music (as well as the other writings in the collection) reads like a journal, a storybook, and a score simultaneously.The pages are riddled with colorful characters, bizarre situations, and wondrous insights into the musical mind of a brilliant transient. ... Read more

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A multimedia experience of Partch in book form.
Philip Blackburn, in taking up the work of the original editor Kenneth Gaburo, describes this as "a scrapbook of a scrapbook" -- it's literally hundreds of pages of collages of Partch's writings, drawings, and musical scores, along with photographs of him and his instruments. Looking into the book is like entering a private dream. Even little scraps of paper with Partch's thoughts have been preserved here (including a little hymn of praise to the Library of Congress, reproduced on the copyright page). There is no effort made to interpret these or link them together ("helpfully") for the reader, so the effect is similar to having opened a trunk of memorabilia: one can construct one's own narrative, draw one's own conclusions. The endnotes are helpful for identifying figures in photographs and other materials. Blackburn's work on the book has been so meticulous that two fonts (one imitating Partch's handwriting, and one based on carbon copies of his 19! 54 typewriter) were designed to maintain the look of the originals even when material needed to be excerpted and retypeset. While the whole book is beautiful and engaging, my favorite parts are the reproductions of Harry's illustrated hobo diaries "Bitter Music" and "End Littoral." It's also the best collection of photos of the amazing Partch instruments I've found. Should be of interest not only to those with a love of experimental musics but also to those who maintain an interest in innovative genius of any kind. ... Read more

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This publication is the most complete collection of commentaries about the American experimental composer Harry Partch ever assembled. Eleven major figures of contemporary music voice their views on Partch (1901-1974) and his radical contributions to twentieth-century music, including Elaine Barkin, Henry Brant, Lou Harrison, Ben Johnston, Danlee Mitchell, and Rudolf Rasch.
Discussions on tuning theory, instrument building, performance, and aesthetics are framed by historical reflections, analyses of compositions, writings by Partch himself, and a collection of rare photographs.
Composer and sound designer David Dunn was assistant to Harry Partch from 1970 to 1974 and remained active as a performer in the Harry Partch Ensemble for over a decade. ... Read more

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Title: Harry Partch. (Music Reviews).(Harry Partch. Barstow: Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California (1968 Version))(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Bob Gilmore
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: 59Issue: 3Page: 739(5)

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Symbolisme, Postmodernisme, Harry Partch, Avant-Garde, Minimalisme, Anti-Art, Modernisme Catalan, Michael Fried, Littérature Moderniste, Mouvement Anthropophage, Fin de Siècle. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Le postmodernisme est à l'origine un paradigme esthétique, inventé au tournant des années 1970 par le critique littéraire américain Ihab Hassan, pour désigner une forme d'hypermodernisme en littérature. Le mot postmoderne a été repris par le philosophe Jean-François Lyotard, avec la publication en 1979 de La condition postmoderne - rapport sur le savoir puis de lettres ouvertes recueillies dans Le postmoderne expliqué aux enfants. D'autres essais lui ont succédé : celui de Fredric Jameson en 1984, de Hassan lui-même en 1982, etc. Bien que généalogiquement toutes liées, les différentes acceptions philosophiques et littéraires du paradigme postmoderne sont foisonnantes, en venant souvent à se corriger voire à s'exclure mutuellement. Il convient donc d'être toujours attentif à l'auteur auquel on se réfère pour éviter les contresens. Le postmodernisme désigne par ailleurs un mouvement artistique, théorisé par le critique d'art Charles Jencks, qui engage une rupture ironique avec les conventions anhistoriques du modernisme en architecture et en urbanisme, tout particulièrement avec les prétentions à conclure l'histoire et à ignorer la géographie. Dans Le Langage de l'architecture post-moderne, paru à Londres en 1977, qui est le livre-manifeste de ce mouvement, Charles Jencks réinscrit l'architecture dans le fil d'une histoire générale des mouvements artistiques, incite à un retour aux compositions et aux motifs empruntés au passé, à un éclectisme s'appuyant sur un regard nouveau portant aussi b...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Title: Harry Partch: Japan Society.(Delusion of the Fury)(Theater review)
Author: Nicole Lanctot
Publication: Artforum International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2008
Publisher: Artforum International Magazine, Inc.
Volume: 46Issue: 8Page: 374(1)

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Title: Harry Partch: A Biography.(Review)
Author: Carol J. Oja
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2000
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Volume: 56Issue: 3Page: 726

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Harry Partch, Maurice Martenot, Lev Sergueïevitch Termen, Alexandre-François Debain, Alexandre Père et Fils, Pantaléon Hebenstreit, Jean-Henri Pape, Bernard Baschet, Johann Andreas Stein, James Lick, Jean Sautivet, Antoine Bord, Cyrill Demian. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Harry Partch, né le 24 juin 1901 à Oakland (Californie) et mort le 3 septembre 1974 à San Diego, était un compositeur et constructeur d'instruments de musique américain. Cet autodidacte « éclectique et visionnaire » fut parmi les premiers compositeurs du siècle à faire un travail intensif et systématique avec des gammes musicales microtonales. Une grande partie de sa musique est destinée à des instruments préparés qu'il fabriquait lui-même, accordés selon une échelle musicale à 43 degrés. Son œuvre influença l'apparition de la musique minimaliste ainsi que d'importantes figures de la musique populaire comme Tom Waits ou Dr. John. Transcription du système d'intonation juste conçu par Harry PartchPartch est né le 24 juin 1901 à Oakland (Californie). Ses parents étaient des missionnaires presbytériens ; Harry est né peu après leur fuite de Chine suite à la révolte des Boxers. Il passa son enfance dans de petites villes de l'Arizona et du Nouveau-Mexique, où il entendit et chanta des chansons en mandarin, en espagnol et en langues amérindiennes. Partch était stérile, probablement à cause des oreillons qu'il a eus dans son enfance. L'essentiel de ses relations amoureuses furent avec d'autres hommes. Enfant, il apprit à jouer de la clarinette, de l'harmonium, de la guitare, du violon alto et du piano. Il commença très tôt à composer en utilisant les douze tempéraments égaux de l'échelle chromatique, qui est la norme de la musiqu...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Wendy Carlos, Charles Ives, Krzysztof Penderecki, Terry Riley, No Wave, La Monte Young, Harry Partch, Iannis Xenakis, Glenn Branca, John Foulds, Julián Carrillo, Lou Harrison, Ben Johnston, Rhys Chatham, Giacinto Scelsi, Henry Ward Poole, Robert Rich, Brian Ferneyhough, Pauline Oliveros, Marc Sabat, Eivind Groven, Andi Spicer, Ivan Wyschnegradsky, James Tenney, Kyle Gann, Georg Hajdu, Bruce Mather, Mordecai Sandberg, Nicola Vicentino, Dimitri Voudouris, Pascal Dusapin, Antoine de Bertrand, Kaija Saariaho, Joe Maneri, Jaroslav Ježek, Douglas Leedy, List of Experimental Musicians, Neptune, Karel Reiner, Frank Denyer, Gérard Grisey, Eric Knechtges, Newband, Jean-Etienne Marie, Adriaan Fokker, Manfred Stahnke, Hans Luedtke, Pascale Criton, Maurice Ohana, Anne La Berge, Ezra Sims, Adam Silverman, Martin Smolka, Easley Blackwood, Jr., Max Méreaux, Tui St. George Tucker, Michael Harrison, Daniel James Wolf, Joel Mandelbaum, Jacob Isaacson, Alois Hába, Henk Badings, Catherine Christer Hennix, François Paris, Mildred Couper, Alain Bancquart, James Wood, Johnny Reinhard, Harold Fortuin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 341. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874 May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer. He is widely regarded as one of the first American composers of international significance. Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original". Ives combined the American popular and church-music traditions of his youth with European art music, and was among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques including polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatoric elements, and ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=66283 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Serge Gainsbourg, Pierre Brasseur, Harry Partch, Harry J. Anslinger, Lino Ventura, Robert Stack, Émile Egger, Paul Young, Vlastimil Kopecký, Robert Newton, Ion Dolănescu. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Serge Gainsbourg, né Lucien Ginsburg le 2 avril 1928 à Paris et mort le 2 mars 1991 à Paris, est un auteur-compositeur-interprète et cinéaste français. Fils d'immigrants russes juifs, il voulut d'abord devenir artiste-peintre. Il devint célèbre en tant qu'auteur-compositeur-interprète qui aborda de nombreux styles musicaux, ainsi que le cinéma et la littérature. Ses débuts sur scène furent difficiles, en raison de son physique. Toute sa vie, Serge Gainsbourg souffrit de ce sentiment de rejet et de l'image que lui renvoyait son miroir : celle d'un homme que l'on qualifiait de laid. Il a réalisé plusieurs films et vidéo-clips et composé plus de . Enfin, il s'est créé l'image d'un poète maudit et provocateur, mais pas pour autant en marge du système (« J'ai retourné ma veste quand je me suis aperçu qu'elle était doublée de vison », déclarera-t-il). Les textes de ses chansons jouent souvent sur le double sens et illustrent son goût pour la provocation, en particulier érotique (Lemon Incest) ou pornographique (Love on the Beat). Serge Gainsbourg aime également jouer avec les références littéraires comme Alphonse Allais (l'Ami Caouette) ou Verlaine (Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais). Cependant il considérait la chanson, et en particulier les paroles de chanson, comme un genre mineur, même s'il travaillait parfois la forme poétique comme certaines de ses rimes dans Comment te dire adieu ?. De relations en relations, Gainsbourg séduira de très jolies femmes, de Brigitte Bardot à « Bambou », Caroline...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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