| Other author/creator | Partch, Harry, 1901-1974 singer. |
| Other author/creator | Schwartz, Horace, conductor. |
| Included Work | Partch, Harry, 1901-1974. Intrusions. |
| Included Work | Partch, Harry, 1901-1974. Plectra and percussion dances. |
| Included Work | Partch, Harry, 1901-1974. Ulysses at the edge. |
| Other author/creator | Gate 5 Ensemble, performer. |
| Uniform title | Works. Selections |
| Series | Selections (CRI) ; v. 1
Partch, Harry, 1901-1974. Selections (CRI) ; v. 1. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents |
Eleven intrusions (1949-50) : Study on Olympos' pentatonic (1:20) ; Study on Archytas' enharmonic (2:02) ; The rose (1:42) ; The crane (1:41) ; The waterfall (1:11) ; The wind (1:45) ; The street (2:46) ; Lover (1:53) ; Soldiers-- War-- Another war (2:03) ; Vanity (:49) ; Cloud-chamber music (3:55) -- Plectra and percussion dances : Satyr-play music for dance theater (1952) : Castor & Pollux : A dance for the twin rhythms of Gemini (15:23). Ring around the moon : A dance fantasm for here and now : Phase one: Well, bless my soul! (2:48) ; Phase two: One, two, three, X, Y, Z (2:13) ; Shake hands now, boys, and at the sound of the bell come out fighting! (2:55) ; Phase four: Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoity toity, hotsy totsy, acey deucy, hoochy-koochy (Look out! He's got a gun!) (1:26). Even wild horses : Dance music for absent drama : A decent and honorable mistake (2:42) ; Rhythm of the womb, Melody of the grave (3:00) ; Happy birthday to you! (2:47) ; "Nor these lips upon your eyes" (3:26) ; "Hunger, thirst, shouts, dance!" (2:12) ; "Land of darkness and of whirlwinds" (3:31) ; "Had I not once a lovely youth?" (2:47) ; "Let us contemplate undazed the endless reaches of my innocence" (2:21) -- Ulysses at the edge (1955) (6:39). |
| General note | In part for voice and instruments, the instruments principally designed and constructed by the composer. |
| General note | Compact disc; digitally remastered. |
| General note | Originally released, as 78-rpm discs (1st work) or analog discs, 1951, 1953 and 1962, respectively. |
| General note | Biographical and program notes by Bob Gilmore, and vocal texts (18 p. : ill.) inserted in container. |
| Performer |
Harry Partch, principal vocals (1st work) ; various instrumentalists (1st work) ; Gate 5 Ensemble (Sausalito) ; Horace Schwartz, conductor (2nd work) ; Gate 5 Ensemble (Evanston) (3rd work). |
| Date/time/place of a event note | The 1st work recorded 1950-51, Gaulala, CA; the 2nd recorded 1953 in Sausalito, CA; the 3rd recorded in 1958 in Evanston, IL. |
| Language | Sung in English. |
| UPC |
9043807522 |
| Publisher number | CD 751 CRI |
