The Harry Partch collection. Volume 1.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Partch, Harry, 1901-1974, performer.

Contributor:

Partch, Harry, 1901-1974, performer.

Schwartz, Horace, conductor.

Gate 5 Ensemble, performer.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Songs with instrumental ensemble.

Ballets.

Monologues with music (Instrumental ensemble).

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New World Records, [2004]

Language Note:

Sung in English.

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

digital recording

Contents:

Eleven intrusions (20:04)

Plectra & percussion dances : satyr-play music for dance theatre. Castor & Pollux : a dance for the twin rhythms of Gemini (15:23) ; Ring around the moon : a dance for here and now (9:21) ; Even wild horses : dance music for an absent drama (22:39)

Ulysses at the edge (6:38).

Participant:

In the 1st work: the composer, principal vocals ; various instrumentalists. In the 2nd: Gate 5 Ensemble (Sausalito) ; Horace Schwartz, conductor. In the 3rd: Gate 5 Ensemble (Evanston).

Notes:

In part for voice and instruments; the instruments principally designed and constructed by the composer.

The 1st work recorded 1950-51, Gaulala, CA; the 2nd recorded 1953 in Sausalito, CA; the 3rd recorded in 1958 in Evanston, IL.

Originally released, as 78-rpm discs (1st work) or analog discs, 1951, 1953 and 1962, respectively. This compilation originally issued in 1997 on CRI (CD 751)

Compact disc; analog recording.

Biographical and program notes by Bob Gilmore, and vocal texts (23 p. : ill.) inserted in container.

Contains:

Partch, Harry, 1901-1974. Intrusions.

Partch, Harry, 1901-1974. Plectra and percussion dances.

Partch, Harry, 1901-1974. Ulysses at the edge.

OCLC:

56792466

Publisher Number:

80621-2 New World Records

CD 751 CRI