Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. He composed using...
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The American composer Harry Partch (1901-1974) composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, derived from the natural Harmonic series;...
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Harry Partch in a unique ensemble of microtonal instruments that Partch designed and built himself; Drummond performed in the premieres of Partch’s Daphne...
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devised by Max Friedrich Meyer and refined by Harry Partch.[failed verification] The first of Partch's "four concepts" is "The scale of musical intervals...
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Limit (music) (category Harry Partch)
limit was introduced by Harry Partch, who used it to give an upper bound on the complexity of harmony; hence the name. Harry Partch, Ivor Darreg, and Ralph...
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tuning, including works by Lou Harrison, LaMonte Young, John Cage, and Harry Partch. He often arranges pieces for guitar and other instruments such as harp...
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tuning an instrument and a systems of pitches Partch's 43-tone scale – Musical scale created by Harry Partch Quarter tone – Musical interval Raga – Melodic...
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The American composer Harry Partch (1901–1974) composed in musical tunings not available on conventional Western instruments. Instead, he developed a 43-tone...
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Virgil Franklin Partch (October 17, 1916 – August 10, 1984), who generally signed his work Vip, was an American gag cartoonist. His work appeared in magazines...
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Otonality and utonality (category Harry Partch)
Otonality and utonality are terms introduced by Harry Partch to describe chords whose pitch classes are the harmonics or subharmonics of a given fixed...
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