Plectra and Percussion Dances

Album by Harry Partch

Released 14 January 2014

Tracklist

  • 1
    Castor & Pollux: Castor: Leda & the Swan (Insemination)
    1:52
  • 2
    Castor & Pollux: Castor: Conception
    1:50
  • 3
    Castor & Pollux: Castor: Incubation
    1:51
  • 4
    Castor & Pollux: Castor: Chorus of Delivery from the Egg
    1:50
  • 5
    Castor & Pollux: Pollux: Leda & the Swan (Insemination)
    1:50
  • 6
    Castor & Pollux: Pollux: Conception
    1:51
  • 7
    Castor & Pollux: Pollux: Incubation
    1:51
  • 8
    Castor & Pollux: Pollux: Chorus of Delivery from the Egg
    2:06
  • 9
    Ring Around the Moon: First Phase: “Ring Around the Moon”
    2:55
  • 10
    Ring Around the Moon: Second Phase: “One, two, three, four…”
    2:14
  • 11
    Ring Around the Moon: Third Phase: “Shake hands now boys…”
    2:48
  • 12
    Ring Around the Moon: Fourth Phase: “Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus…“
    1:29
  • 13
    Even Wild Horses: Act I: Scene 1, A Decent and Honorable Mistake
    3:06
  • 14
    Even Wild Horses: Act I: Scene 2, Rhythm of the Womb, Melody of the Grave
    3:01
  • 15
    Even Wild Horses: Act I: Scene 3, Happy Birthday to You!
    2:55
  • 16
    Even Wild Horses: Act II: Scene 1, “Nor These Lips Upon Your Eyes”
    3:24
  • 17
    Even Wild Horses: Act II: Scene 2, “Hunger, Thirst, Shout, Dance!”
    2:26
  • 18
    Even Wild Horses: Act II: Scene 3, “Land of Darkness and of Whirlwinds”
    3:37
  • 19
    Even Wild Horses: Act III: Scene 1, “Had I Not Once a Lovely Youth?”
    3:00
  • 20
    Even Wild Horses: Act III: Scene 2, “Let Us Contemplate Undazed the Endless Reaches of My Innocence”
    2:37
  • 21
    Partch’s 1953 introduction to the live broadcast of the Premiere on KPFA-FM (Berkeley, California)
    7:11

More by Harry Partch

Issues