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Harry Partch: A Biography (Hardcover)

by B Gilmore (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press (23 Jun 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0300065213
  • ISBN-13: 978-0300065213
  • Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16.3 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 724,521 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This engaging book is the first biography of one of the great ""originals"" of American classical music. It provides a full portrait of Harry Partch (1901-1974), a composer, theorist, and creator of musical instruments whose life and works were marginalized and unconventional, yet who had an enormous influence on later experimental composers.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Gilmore's account of Partch's life reads like a thriller, 6 Dec 1998
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American maverick iconclast composer mythologised his life history in his own lifetime. Astoundingly, there has previously been very little analytical/musicological or biographical information published on this important and unique American composer. McGeary, in Bitter Music, asserted that nothing COULD be known of Partch's early life. We all agreed. We were wrong. Gilmore has, like a private investigator, meticulously followed the trail which has lain below the sand of the American deserts through which Partch trailed. You won't need to be either a music student or particularly interested in Harry Partch to find this book an utterly fascinating account of this still underrated composer, instrument-maker and 'philosophic-music-man'. It stands as a chronicle of the twentieth century American man, a tangent to the mainstream of arts culture, an important contribution to Depression Era art, as well as obviously to contemporary music and just intonation/tuning matters.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A missing piece of musical history is recovered, 29 May 2002
According to musicologists, the 20th century seems littered with "original" composers who "owe little to any musical school or fashion". Such claims become almost meaningless when we encounter the sonic landscapes of Harry Partch. His contemporaries made do with 12 notes per octave, Partch settled for 43. You can probably count on the fingers of one hand who the really original/maverick composers are - and Harry Partch is up there with them, which makes this biography essential reading for anyone interested in modernism, or even just American music.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 5 stars plus 2 thumbs up for Gilmore, 1 Aug 1999
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I recall Bob dropping by my fathers house in the early 90's to collect things for this book. Little did I know how many of my questions would be answered by this novel. Harry had always been that of a surrogate grandpa figure to me. I was 8 when he died, so alot has gone unanswered ever since.

Being a biography only, it fills you in with what drove Harry to do what he did and all the stumbling blocks encountered along the way (things I have always wondered about).

If you are interested in Harry's musical intsruments, corporeal philosophy, or the tuning set-up he put together, I would suggest getting the book he wrote "Genesis of a Music", sold here at Amazon.

In purchasing Bob's book, you will encounter a path in which a true creative mind was once lead down, unmutilated.....Geordan Mitchell

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