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Barstow : eight hitchhiker inscriptions from a highway railing at Barstow, California (1968 version) / Harry Partch ; edited by Richard Kassel.
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Partch, Harry, 1901-1974, composer.
- Series:
- Recent researches in American music ; 39.
- Music of the United States of America ; v. 9.
- Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.
- Recent researches in American music ; 39
- Music of the United States of America ; v. 9
- Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573
- Standardized Title:
- Wayward. Barstow
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Partch, Harry, 1901-1974--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.
- Partch, Harry.
- Monologues with music (Vocal duet with instrumental ensemble)--Scores.
- Monologues with music (Vocal duet with instrumental ensemble).
- Vocal duets with instrumental ensemble--Scores.
- Vocal duets with instrumental ensemble.
- Music--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.
- Music.
- Genre:
- Monologues (Drama)
- Scores.
- Art music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 score (lxxix, 62 pages, 3 pages of plates)) : illustrations, portrait.
- Place of Publication:
- Middleton, Wisconsin : Published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions, Inc., 2019.
- Language Note:
- Includes non-standard notation.
- Summary:
- "Composer, theorist, instrument builder, and performer, Harry Partch stands with Henry Cowell and John Cage among the great experimenters in American music. Constrained by conventional scales and tuning, Partch devised his own instruments to capture the sounds he imagined. Barstow, composed in 1941 and revised many times afterward through 1968, ranks among Partch's best-known and most accessible works. A setting for voices and instruments of eight hitchhikers' inscriptions near Barstow, California, the work immortalizes the dying world of the American hobo. Its intimate, honest view of Depression-era America provides a foil to the nostalgic Americana of the period. This edition presents Partch's final version of the work with a transcription based on Ben Johnston's system of notating just intonation." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Barstow as history: an introduction to the sound world of Harry Partch
- Plates
- Barstow [transcription of original tablature score of version VII (1968) into a notation for just intonation developed by Ben Johnston]
- Apparatus
- Appendices: instrument charts.
- Notes:
- For rhythmic speaking and/or singing voice (baritone-tenor), chorus voice (baritone), and instruments constructed by the composer.
- Part 1 of his The wayward.
- Permission to reprint the 1968 holograph score does not extend to electronic versions. Please refer to the print version of this title for the facsimile.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed December 10, 2019).
- OCLC:
- 1130728809
- Publisher Number:
- A039 A-R Editions, Inc.
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