Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 - September 3, 1974) was an American composer and instrument builder. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with microtonal scales, writing much of his music for custom-made instruments he built himself, tuned in 11-limit just intonation. Wikipedia
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Collaborators and micronotal pioneers Harry Partch and Dean Drummond have produced a body of work that is far ahead of its time. innova.mu/show_collection.aspx?collection=Harry%20Partch
Corporeal Meadows is about the life and works of Harry Partch - iconoclastic American composer, theorist, instrument builder, raconteur, big-time crank and one-time hobo. It is by people who knew and worked with him. Our aims are to share information abou www.corporeal.com/
Hosted by singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega and inspired by the San Francisco Symphony's music festival of the same name, American Public Media's American Mavericks series explores the revolution behind concert music in the 20th century and brings the series www.musicmavericks.org/features/feature_partch.html
Harry Partch (1901-1974) holds a unique place in music from the United States. Partch rejected the tradition of equal temperament in Western music, and devoted his life to creating a system of just intonation he referred to as 'monophony,' which eventual artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/compbio.pl?compname=partchharry
Harry Partch was the only composer of the 20th century to compose for an orchestra of instruments he alone designed and built. He patterned and built instruments of aesthetic beauty and practical substance which allowed him to create a music with a sonic trumpet.sdsu.edu/M345/20th_Cen_Mus3.html
Harry Partch challenged our entire musical world with, what I might term, his 'back-to-nature' approach to music and most especially to the Western diatonic scale and tuning system - what is termed the 12-tone equal tempered tuning system. ... "The maj www.frankperry.co.uk/HARRY%20PARTCH.htm
Partch wrote many works in the 20s including a string quartet, a piano concerto and many songs, although many were 'torched' by him having regarded them as immature. One piece did survive in the form of a pop song, My Heart Keeps Beating Time which he wr www.oliviermessiaen.org/malcolmball/partch.htm