Genesis Of A Music
An Account Of A Creative Work, Its Roots, And Its Fulfillments, Second Edition
$84.13
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
22 August 1979
Summary
Among the few truly experimental composers in our cultural history, Harry Partch’s life (1901-1974) and music embody most completely the quintessential American rootlessness, isolation, pre-civilized cult of experience, and dichotomy of practical invention and transcendental visions. Having lived mostly in the remote deserts of Arizona and New Mexico with no access to formal training, Partch naturally created theatrical ritualistic works incorporating Indian chants, Japanese kabuki and Noh, P…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780306801068 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 030680106X |
| Author: | Harry Partch |
| Publisher: | Hachette Books |
| Imprint: | Da Capo Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 22 August 1979 |
| Weight: | 800g |
| Dimensions: | 224mm x 152mm x 36mm |
| Series: | Da Capo Paperback |
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“Microtonality is an essential part of music, though European theories of harmony and tonality have nothing to say about it. Harry Partch’s Genesis of a Music is therefore invaluable, dealing as it does in detail with the composer’s inventions of microtonal musical instruments and his compositional method using a 43-tone scale.”
–John Cage
About The Author
Harry Partch
Harry Partch (1901-1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first twentieth-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales.
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