Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    I Am Harry Partch
    0:24
  • 2
    By The Rivers Of Babylon (137th Psalm)
    3:25
  • 3
    Texts And Music: A Wagnerian Wrestling Match
    1:21
  • 4
    A Dream
    4:33
  • 5
    An Encounter In The Field
    0:48
  • 6
    On Hearing The Flute
    0:59
  • 7
    The Intruder
    1:09
  • 8
    I Am A Peach Tree
    1:25
  • 9
    With A Man Of Leisure
    0:44
  • 10
    A Midnight Farewell
    1:16
  • 11
    Before The Cask Of Wine
    2:10
  • 12
    On The Ship Of Spicewood
    2:31
  • 13
    By The Great Wall
    1:55
  • 14
    The Use Of English In Serious Music
    0:57
  • 15
    Barstow — Eight Hitch-hikers' Inscriptions From A Highway Railing At Barstow, California
    8:26
  • 16
    San Francisco — Newsboys Cries
    2:29
  • 17
    Life Is Too Precious To Spend It With Important People
    1:29
  • 18
    U.S. Highball — A Musical Account Of Slim's Transcontinental Hobo Trip
    26:45
  • 19
    While My Heart Keeps Beating Time
    1:36
  • 20
    San Francisco II
    2:50
  • CD 2: -
  • 1
    I'm Going To Start Right Off By Giving You Some Sounds…
    0:29
  • 2
    Isobel
    2:52
  • 3
    Annah The Allmaziful
    2:21
  • 4
    Dark Brother
    7:41
  • 5
    Prelude To Talk
    2:14
  • 6
    Introduction To Examples Of Intonation
    6:01
  • 7
    Scale Of Olympos (Pentatonic)
    1:03
  • 8
    Enharmonic Scale Of Archytas; Separated By 3/2's; Triads
    1:33
  • 9
    Scale Of Pythagoras; Separated By 3/2's; Triads
    1:05
  • 10
    Ptolemaic Intense Diatonic; Separated By 3/2's; Triads
    0:51
  • 11
    Ptolemy's Equable Diatonic; Separated By 3/2's
    1:22
  • 12
    Terpander's Hexatonic
    1:49
  • 13
    Close Degrees
    1:05
  • 14
    True And Tempered Triads
    1:20
  • 15
    Resolutions From P. 186 Of Genesis Of A Music; Resolution P. 187; "Familiar" Resolution
    2:21
  • 16
    Fox-Strangeways Resolutions
    2:24
  • 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…"
    3:54
  • 18
    Multiple Tonal Senses From Antiphony Of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…"
    2:37
  • 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?"
    4:02
  • 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."
    1:43
  • 21
    Melodic Subtleties From The Bewitched
    6:10
  • 22
    Instrumental Tunings: Harmonic Canon I As Iin Revelation; Petals; Chromelodeon Two Sets Of Reeds; Revelation
    10:40
  • 23
    Dissonances And Consonance: Coda To Oedipus; Coda To Revelation
    6:50
  • CD 3: Extracts From Bitter Music, A Hobo Journal
  • 1
    June 11, 1935 — Santa Rosa, California
    0:27
  • 2
    June 12 — Federal Shelter, Stockton
    3:37
  • 3
    June 13
    1:28
  • 4
    June 14
    1:22
  • 5
    June 16 — Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta
    3:27
  • 6
    June 17
    0:27
  • 7
    July 4
    3:50
  • 8
    July 14
    0:50
  • 9
    July 16
    1:16
  • 10
    July 19
    1:11
  • 11
    July 20 — Heading North, Between Sacramento And Redding
    2:24
  • 12
    July 24 — Federal Shelter, Portland
    2:25
  • 13
    July 25 — Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington
    4:16
  • 14
    July 27
    2:33
  • 15
    July 29
    0:25
  • 16
    July 30
    0:29
  • 17
    August 7 — Between Grants Pass And Klamath Falls, Oregon
    1:56
  • 18
    August 15
    1:31
  • 19
    October 22 — Nearing Monterey
    5:01
  • 20
    October 24 — Leaving Big Sur
    2:33
  • 21
    October 25 — Near Slate's Hot Springs
    2:56
  • 22
    October 26
    1:22
  • 23
    October 27
    0:35
  • 24
    October 28
    0:17
  • 25
    October 29
    1:28
  • 26
    October 30 — Big Creek
    0:53
  • 27
    November 12 — Santa Barbara
    2:23
  • 28
    November 14
    0:31
  • 29
    November 15 — Leaving Santa Barbara
    4:17
  • 30
    November 16 — Ojai
    0:57
  • 31
    November 17
    1:02
  • 32
    November 23 — Los Angeles
    0:29
  • 33
    November 28
    0:19
  • 34
    December 4
    0:42
  • 35
    December, 1935
    8:44
  • 36
    February 1, 1936 — San Bernardino
    4:00
  • CD 4: -
  • 1
    Yankee Doodle Birds
    0:36
  • 2
    Y.D. Fantasy — On The Words Of An Early American Tune
    3:54
  • 3
    O Frabjous Day!
    3:10
  • 4
    You Are Charged With Being Guilty. Are You Drunk Or Not?
    1:02
  • 5
    Ring Around The Moon — A Dance Fantasm For Here And Now
    9:00
  • 6
    Bless This Home
    3:21
  • 7
    Harry's Wake
    46:23

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