the recordings of music as composed by Harry Partch
a discography compiled by H.Lukas Lindenmaier (Lukas died in February 2014, RIP)
ADDITION: The covers were added from the internet files. The copyright belongs to the people who issued them. (Michael Frohne)
Maybe there is somebody on this planet who can update this disco. It was done after our radio show on Radio Dreyeckland (with the help of Bernhard Brüchig - Thank you Benno!). I cannot remember the dates of broadcasts but it most be about 15 years ago.
1. chronological listing of recording sessions
00-0000A - TWO SETTINGS FROM LEWIS CARROLL
. . , unknown location: unidentified musicians and instrumentation.
a. O Frabjous Day! Bootleg-RIP-003
b. unknown title
Issues: Bootleg-RIP-000 (unidentified album, info from B.Brüchig)
00-0000B - YANKEE DOODLE FANTASY
. . , unknown location: unidentified musicians and instrumentation.
a. Yankee Doodle Fantasy Newport-Classics-NPD85526
Issues: Newport-Classics-NPD85526 (CD) as MICROTONAL PIANO; includes other material not related to Harry Partch's works. (info from B.Brüchig)
46-0000A - U.S.HIGHBALL
. .1946, University of Madison, Madison WI: Lee Hoiby kithara; Christine Charnstrom chromelodeon; Hulda Gieschen harmonic canon; William Wendlandt subjective voice; Harry Partch objective voice,adapted guitar.
a. U.S.Highball (Version B) GME-Recordings-#???
Issues: GME-Recordings privately issued by Warren E.Gilson, Madison WI
(1946)
Notes: -a. issued in 6 parts (three 12" 78-rpm-disks)
47-0000A - TEN SETTINGS OF LYRICS BY LI PO
. .1947, University of Madison, Madison WI: William Wendlandt intoning voice; Harry Partch intoning voice, adapted viola.
a. An Encounter In The Field Gate-5-#A
b. On Hearing The FLute At Lo-cheng Gate-5-#A
c. The Intruder Gate-5-#A NWR-NW-214
d. I Am A Peach Tree Gate-5-#A NWR-NW-214
e. With A Man Of Leisure
f. A Midnight Farewell Gate-5-#A NWR-NW-214
g. Before The Cask Of Wine Gate-5-#A NWR-NW-214
h. A Dream
i. On The Ship Of Spice-Wood
j. By The Great Wall
Issues: -a. - -j. complete in 4 parts (two 12" 78-rpm-disks) on
GME-Recordings-#???, privately issued by Warren E.Gilson, Madison WI
(1947)
Gate-5-#A (12" LP) as THIRTY YEARS OF LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC MUSIC.
New-World-Records-NW-214 as HARRY PARTCH / JOHN CAGE; also includes
Cage's "Music of Changes pts. 3+4"
50-0000A - THE MUSIC OF HARRY PARTCH / PARTCH COMPOSITIONS
. .1950, Gualala CA: Harry Partch intoning voice; Ben Johnston intoning voice; Betty Johnston, Donald Pippin, Bill Snead unidentified instrumentation
a. Studies On Ancient Greek Scales Gate-5-#A Mode-CD18
b. The Rose Gate-5-#A NWR-NW-214
c. The Crane Gate-5-#A
d. The Wind Gate-5-#A NWR-NW-214
e. The Waterfall Gate-5-#A NWR-NW-214
f. The Letter 2:45 Gate-5-#B CRI-CRI-193
CRI-ACS-6001 CRI-CD-7000
g. The Street NWR-NW-214
h. Vanity Gate-5-#A
i. Lover
j. Soldiers - War - Another War
k. Cloud Chamber Music 3:45 Gate-5-#A CRI-CRI-193
CRI-ACS-6001
l. Dark Brother (Version B)
Issues: -a. - -l. issued in 10 parts on 5 12" 78-rpm-disks, on a non-for-profit basis by Lauriston C.Marshall, Berkeley CA (1951, reissued 1953)
Gate-5-#A (12" LP) as THIRTY YEARS OF LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC MUSIC.
Gate-5-#B (12" LP) as THE WAYWARD.
Composers-Recordings-Inc.-CRI-193 as FROM THE MUSIC OF HARRY PARTCH.
Composers-Recordings-Inc.-ACS-6001 (cass) as MUSIC OF HARRY PARTCH.
Composers-Recordings-Inc.-CD-7000 (CD) as THE MUSIC OF HARRY PARTCH.
New-World-Records-NW-214 as HARRY PARTCH / JOHN CAGE; also includes
Cage's "Music of Changes pts. 3+4"
Mode-CD18 as NEWBAND; includes other recordings not related to Harry Partch's works.
53-0000A - PLECTRA AND PERCUSSION DANCES
. .1953, Sausalito CA: The Gate-5 Ensemble: Horace Schwartz cond; Richard Barnett; Ruita Churchill; Vincent Delgado; Robert Gafias; Henry Jarmillo; Lynn Ludlow; Harry Partch; Jerry Schimmel; Michele Slivka; Allen Smith; Marc Smith (unidentified instrumentation).
a. Castor And Pollux (complete) Gate-5-#4 CRI-CRI-193
14:15 CRI-ACS-6001 CRI-CD-7000
aa. Castor And Pollux Gate-5-#1
(excerpts, missing sections 2,3)
b. Ring Around The Moon Gate-5-#1 Gate-5-#4
(complete, Lynn Ludlow voice)
c. Even Wild Horses Gate-5-unissued
(complete)
ca. Even Wild Horses Gate-5-#1
(edition 1, missing act 3 scene 1,
Allan Louw voice)
cb. Even Wild Horses Gate-5-#4
(edition 2, missing act 1 scene 2,
Allan Louw voice)
Issues: Gate-5-#1 (12"LP) originally (1953) released as a
Harry-Partch-Trust-Fund-Edition.
Gate-5-#4 (12" LP) = Gate-5-#C, both as PLECTRA AND
PERCUSSION DANCES "SECOND EDITION".
Composers-Recordings-Inc.-CRI-193 as FROM THE MUSIC OF HARRY PARTCH.
Composers-Recordings-Inc.-ACS-6001 (cass) as MUSIC OF HARRY PARTCH.
Composers-Recordings-Inc.-CD-7000 (CD) as THE MUSIC OF HARRY PARTCH.
54-0000A - OEDIPUS
. .1954, Sausalito CA: The Gate-5 Ensemble: Jack Hohensee cond; Allan Low as Oedipus; Pierce Murphy as Chorus Spokesman; Sue Bell Starck as Jocaste; Harry Partch as Tiresia and Herdsman; Edward Bode as Priest; John King as Creon; Larry Dukore as Chorus; Ralph Cook as Corinthian Stranger; Gerd Stern as Messenger; Elizabeth Foster solo soprano voice; Barbara Hyde, Ginger McFadden, Joanna Nakamura, Mary Whittier, Pat Wright complement woman's voices.
Peter Divdeo, Julian Spear, Mario Ganio clarinets; Ellen Odner adapted cello; James Lenhart adapted string bass; Harry Partch adapted viola, adapted guitar II; Mario Ganio, Emily Kirby harmonic canon; Jerry Schimmel kithara, adapted guitar III; Marc Smith chromelodeon I; Pam Loughborough chromelodeon sub-bass; William Buck chromelodeon III; Ted Lenhart cloud chamber bowls; Richard Barnett diamond marimba; Allen Smith, Gene Vittori, Robert Garfias bass marimba, marimba eroica.
a. Oedipus (Version B) Gate-5-#2
aa. Oedipus (Version B) Gate-5-#5
(excerpts)
Issues: Gate-5-#2 (2 12"LP) originally (1954) released as a
Harry-Partch-Trust-Fund-Edition.
Gate-5-#5 as OEDIPUS "SECOND EDITION" = Gate-5-#D as OEDIPUS.
57-0300A - THE BEWITCHED
.3.1957, University of Illinois, Chicago IL: (following the premiere performance on 26.3.1957) John Garvey cond; Freda Schell as The Witch; William Olson as Chorus Leader; William Olson marimba eroica; Warren Smith bass marimba; Thomas Gauger bamboo marimba; Michael Donzella spoils of war; George Andrix cloud chamber bowls; Danlee Mitchell diamond marimba; Jack McKenzie surrogate kithara, gongs; Georgia Mayer harmonic canon (Castor); Barbara Grammar harmonic canon (Pollux); Sanford Berry kithara (right); Jan Bach kithara (left); Warren Birkett clarinet; Joseph Firrantello bassclarinet; Charles DeLaney piccolo; Carol Zuckerberg koto; Peter Farrell cello; Herbert Bielawa chromelodeon.
a. The Bewitched (Version B) Gate-5-#3
CRC-CD-7000
aa. The Bewitched (Version B) Gate-5-#E
(edition 1)
- Prologue: The Lost Musicians Gate-5-#E
Mix Magic
- Scene 3: The Romancing Of Gate-5-#E
Pathological Liar Comes
To An Inspired End
- Scene 4: A Soul Tormented By Gate-5-#E
Contemporary Music Finds A
Humanizing Alchemy
- Scene 8: A Court In Its Own Gate-5-#E
Contempt Rises To A Motherly
Apotheosis
- Scene 10: The Cognoscenti Are Gate-5-#E
Plunged Into A Demonic Descent CRI-CRI-193 CRI-ACS-6001
While At Cocktails (into)
- Epilogue 9:15 Gate-5-#E
CRI-CRI-193 CRI-ACS-6001
Issues: Gate-5-#3 = Composers-Recordings-Inc.-CRI-SD-304 (2 12"LP)
= Composers-Recordings-Inc.-CD-7001 (CD) as THE BEWITCHED.
Gate-5-#E (12" LP) as THE BEWITCHED.
Composers-Recordings-Inc.-CRI-193 as FROM THE MUSIC OF HARRY PARTCH.
Composers-Recordings-Inc.-ACS-6001 (cassette) MUSIC OF HARRY PARTCH.
Composers-Recordings-Inc.-CD-7000 (CD) as THE MUSIC OF HARRY PARTCH.
58-0000A - U.S.HIGHBALL
. .1958, Evanston IL: The Gate-5 Ensemble: Jack McKenzie cond; Thomas Coleman as Mac; Dick Borden, Melvin Britton, Michael Colgras, Elizabeth Gentry, Danlee Mitchell, Harry Partch, David Reid, Melvin Wildberger (unidentified instrumentation).
a. U.S.Highball (Version C) Gate-5-#6
Gate-5-#B
Bootleg-RIP-003
Issues: Gate-5-#6 (10" LP) as U.S.HIGHBALL, also announced as "The Third Harry Partch Subscription Fund".
Gate-5-#B (12" LP) as THE WAYWARD.
Bootleg-RIP-000 (unidentified album, info from B.Brüchig)
58-0000B - WINDSONG
. .1958, Evanston IL: Harry Partch (unidentified instruments in multitrack overdub recordings)
a. Windsong film-soundtrack
aa. Windsong (excerpts) Gate-5-#A
CRI-CRI-193 CRI-CD-7000
Issues: film soundtrack for Madeline Tourtelot's WINDSONG.
Gate-5-#A (12" LP) as THIRTY YEARS OF LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC MUSIC.
Composers-Recordings-Inc.-CRI-193 as FROM THE MUSIC OF HARRY PARTCH.
Composers-Recordings-Inc.-CD-7000 (CD) as THE MUSIC OF HARRY PARTCH.
58-0000C - ULYSSES AT THE EDGE
. .1958, Evanston IL: Gate-5 Ensemble: David Reid voice, baritone-sax; Dick Schleppe alto-sax; Danlee Mitchell bamboo-marimba, cloud-chamber bowls; Harry Partch diamond marimba, cloud-chamber bowls.
a. Ulysses At The Edge (Version C) Gate-5-#B Bootleg-RIP-003
Issues: Gate-5-#B (12" LP) as THE WAYWARD.
Bootleg-RIP-000 (unidentified album, info from B.Brüchig)
61-0000A - BLESS THIS HOME
. .1961, University of Illinois, Chicago IL: John Garvey cond; Harry Partch intoning voice, adapted viola; Vincenzo Prockelo oboe; Danlee Mitchell kithara, harmonic canon; Joseph Varhula mazda marimba.
a. Bless This Home Gate-5-#A
Issues: Gate-5-#A (12" LP) as THIRTY YEARS OF LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC MUSIC.
61-0000B - BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON
. .1961, University of Illinois, Chicago IL: John Garvey cond; Harry Partch adapted viola; Nina Cutler voice; Evelyn Garvey chromelodeon; Lyndel Davis kithara;
a. By The Rivers Of Babylon Gate-5-#A
Issues: Gate-5-#A (12" LP) as THIRTY YEARS OF LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC MUSIC.
61-0400A - REVELATION AT THE COURTHOUSE PARK
.4.1961, University of Illinois, Chicago IL: (following the premiere on 11.4.1961) The Gate-5 Ensemble: John Garvey cond; Jeffrey Foote as Sony/Pentheus; Freda Pierce as Mom/Agave; John Bert as Dion/Dionysus; Elizabeth Hiller as Korypheus; Coryl Crandall as Cadmus; Joel Klein as Herdsman; unidentified chorus and unientified instrumentalists.
a. Revelation at The Courthouse Park
(complete)
aa. Revelation At The Courthouse Park Gate-5-#F
(edition 1)
- Chorus One (complete)
- Chorus Three (from "Ishbu Kubu" almost to the end)
- from Scene 1: Hymn To Dionysus
"Holy Joy And Get Religion"
- from Scene 2: Hymn To Dionysus
"What The Majority Believes"
and "Glory To The Male Womb"
- end of Scene 3 and complete Chorus Four
- end of Scene 4 and Coda
Issues: Gate-5-#F (12" LP) as REVELATION AT THE COURTHOUSE PARK
61-0400B - ROTATE THE BODY IN ALL ITS PLANES
.4.1961, University of Illinois, Chicago IL: The Gate-5 Ensemble: John Garvey cond; unidentified voices, chorus, and unientified instrumentalists (actually the same ensemble as for 61-0400A).
a. Rotate The Body In All Its Planes
1. Fanfare Gate-5-#G
2. Free Exercise ---
3. Side Horse ---
4. Parallel Bars
5. Still Rings
6. Horizontal Bar Gate-5-#G
7. Tutti ---
8. Mat Tumbling ---
9. Trampoline ---
10. Salute ---
Issues: Gate-5-#G (12" LP) as WATER! WATER! / ROTATE THE BODY IN ALL ITS PLANES.
Notes: Parts 4 and 5 from -a. not included on Gate-5-#G.
Gate-5-#G was released in 1962; by January 1963, Harry Partch had withdrawn this recording.
62-0300A - WATER! WATER!
.3.1962, University of Illinois, Chicago IL: (following the premiere performances on 9.-10.3.1962) The Gate-5 Ensemble: John Garvey as Singer, Speaker, Jazzman, Alderman (in Fugue on "No"), cond; Scott Meland as Arthur, Indian Runners, Aldermen, Jazzmen; Alan Gossard as Phoebus The Disk Jockey and Emcee; Paul Cooper as Producer; Patrick Day as Clarence; Steven Allen as Aquarius; Jane Daily as Singer From Spoleto, Wanda The Water Witch; Stephen Farish as Water Crier, Alderman in Fugue; Nina Cutler as Water Cries; Cynthia Schwartz as Her Honor; Kathleen Roche as Visitor From Alabama; Carolyn Burrill as Pura; Heln Curley, Dianne Layden, Jane Daily, Kathleen Roche as Ladie'S Auxiliaries; Lynette Barry, Janet Campbell, Elizabeth Coney, Geraldine Jones, Carolyn Burrill as Witches.
Eddie Allen clarinet; John Ginther bass-clarinet; Cecil Bridgewater tp; Uni Thomas, Mark Cleghorn violin; Howard Osborn viola; Elizabeth Krone cello; Edward Krolick bass; Donald Andrus chromelodeon; William Parsons percussions; Thomas Wardlow, Alan Davis castor&pollux; Michael Ranta surrogate-kithara; Lyndel Davis kithara; Thomas Hall spoils of war; Danlee Mitchell diamond marimba; Michael Combs bass-marimba; Arthur Schildbach marimba eroica; Max Murray soprano-sax; Aaron Johnson tuba; Melaniusz Gienko trombone.
a. Water! Water! (original)
aa. Water! Water! (excerpts) Gate-5-#G
- Opening Prologue
- Second Prologue
- Fourth Prologue: Water Cries:
"O What Could He Do But Pick Her Up?" (Jazzmen)
- Sixth Prologue: Water Criers: "Witch For Water" (Witches); Fugue on "No" (Aldermen);
"Wanda The Water Witch" (Jazzmen)
- Seventh Prologue: "Santa Mystiana The
Beautiful" (Her Honro and Conductor)
- Eighth Prologue: Water Criers; visitors from strange and foreign places (the Singer From Spoleto, an Alabama Mockingbird); "Dear Old Alabma" (Visitor, Conductor, and Choruses)
- Ninth Prologue: "We Really Love Each Other.
In 43 Whines To The Octave" (Aldermen, Ladies Auxiliaries, Jazzmen, Witches)
- Tenth Prologue: Water Criers: The baseball game is called on account of rain.
- Final Prologue: "To Hell With The Game! Rain! Rain!" and "The Highest Goodness Is Like Water!" (Choruses)
- Opening Epilogue
- Third Epilogue: "Ghosts, Undele, Oomph!" (Ghosts)
- Fourth Epilogue: Water Criers: We'll Sue You For A Milion!" (Her Honor and Jazzmen)
- Fifth Epilogue: "Do-Lo-Do-Lo-Doom!" (Aldermen, Ladies, and Ghosts)
- Seventh Epilogue: Phoebus bids farewell: the Indian Runners bring news; "Gone, Man, Gone!" (ensemble)
- Eight Epilogue: Water Criers: the Producer finally silences the instruments.
Issues: Gate-5-#G (12" LP) as WATER! WATER! /
ROTATE THE BODY IN ALL ITS PLANES.
Notes: Gate-5-#G was released in 1962; by January 1963, Harry Partch had
withdrawn this recording.
64/66-0000 - AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY PETALS FELL IN PETALUMA
1964-1966 ???), Petaluma CA and Los Angeles CA: The Gate-5 Ensemble: Harry Partch cond; Danlee Mitchell, Michael Ranta, Emil Richards, Wallace Snow, Stephen Tosh (unidentified instrumentation).
a. And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell CRI-CRI-213
In Petaluma 34:00 CRI-ACS-6001 CRI-CD-7000
Issues: Composers-Recordings-Inc.-CRI-213 (12" LP) as AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY PETALS FELL IN PETALUMA.
Composers-Recordings-Inc.-ACS-6001 (cassette) as MUSIC OF HARRY PARTCH.
Composers-Recordings-Inc.-CD-7000 (CD) as THE MUSIC OF HARRY PARTCH.
68-0900A - THE WORLD OF HARRY PARTCH
.9.1968, New York NY: Danlee Mitchell cond; Harry Partch, Frank Berberich, Gary Coleman, Dean Drummond, Richard Lapore, John McAllister, Robert McCormick, Todd Miller, Emil Richards, Michael Ranta, Linda Schell (unidentified instrumentation).
a. Daphne Of The Dunes Columbia-MS7207
68-0900B - THE WORLD OF HARRY PARTCH
.9.1968, New York NY: Danlee Mitchell cond; Harry Partch, John Stannard voice; John McAllister, Danlee Mitchell, Michael Ranta, Linda Schell (unidentified instrumentation).
a. Barstow (Version B) Columbia-MS7207
68-0900C - THE WORLD OF HARRY PARTCH
.9.1968, New York NY: Danlee Mitchell cond; Gary Coleman, Dean Drummond, John McAllister, Danlee Mitchell,Emil Richards, Michael Ranta, Linda Schell (unidentified instrumentation).
a. Castor And Pollux Columbia-MS7207
Issues: Columbia-MS7207 (12" LP) = Columbia MQ31227 (12" LP) as THE WORLD OF HARRY PARTCH.
Notes:
69-0100A - DELUSION OF THE FURY
.1.1969, Los Angeles CA: (following the premiere performances 9.-12.1.1969) Danlee Mitchell cond; Harry Partch adapted viola, harmonic canon I, voice; Linda Schell, Danlee Mitchell chromelodeon I, kithara II, gourd tree, cone gong; John McAllister, Danlee Mitchell blo-boy, chromelodeon II; Linda Schell adapted guitar, harmonic canon II, diamond marimba, bass marimba, koto, mazda marimba, quadrangularis reversum; Danlee Mitchell cloud-chamber bowls, spoils of war, marimba eroica, surrogate kithara, bamboo marimba, crychord, zymo-xyl, eucal blossom, harmonic canon III; John Glasier, Jonathan Glasier, Linda Schell, Danlee Mitchell, John McAllister (additional hand instruments: Bolivian double flute, ugumbo, waving drum, rotating drum, belly drum, bamboo & eucalyptus claves.
a. Delusion Of The Fury Columbia-M2-30576
Issues: Columbia-M2-30576 (2 12" LP) DELUSION OF THE FURY; this issue
includes one more additional record as THE INSTRUMENTS OF HARRY PARTCH.
71-0000A - ULYSEES DEPARTS FROM THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
. .1971, San Diego CA: Danlee Mitchell diamond marimba; John Grimes bamboo marimba, cloud-chamber bowls; Linda Schell bass marimba, cloud-chamber bowls; Larry Livingston baritone-sax, speaker; Jack Logan trumpet.
a. Ulysses Departs From The Orion-ORS-7294
Edge Of The World
Issues: Orion-ORS-7294 (12" LP) as NEW MUSIC FOR TRUMPET; this album
includes additional recordings of compositions by Stravinsky, Ahlstrom, Erickson, Gaburo.
72-0000A - THE DREAMER THAT REMAINS
. .1972, San Diego CA: Jack Logan cond; Harry Partch intoning voice, narrator; Mark Hoffman as Brash Musician; Danlee Mitchell as Second Musician; Jon Szanto as The Voice; Katherin Bjornson, Alexis Glattly, Michael Crosier chorus voices; Ron Caruso gourd tree; David Dunn adapted viola; Dennis Dunn, Jonathan Glasier new harmonic canon I; Jean-Charles Francoix quadrangularis reversum; Randy Hoffmann eucal blossom, mbira bass dyad; Danlee Mitchell new kithara I; Emil Richards cloud-chamber bowls; Jon Szanto ektara, bamboo marimba II; Duane Thomas harmonic canon II; Francis Thumm chromelodeon.
a. The Dreamer That Remains NWR-NW-214
Issues: New-World-Records-NW-214 as HARRY PARTCH / JOHN CAGE; also includes Cage's "Music of Changes pts. 3+4".
87-1012 - REVELATION IN THE COURTHOUSE PARK
12.10.1987, Great Hall, University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA: Danlee Mitchell cond; Suzanne Costalos as Mom/Agave; Christopher Durham as Sonny/Penthouse; Obba Babatunde as Dion/Dionysus; Edward Earle as Hobo and Tiresias; Matthew Kimbrough as Vendor and Herdsman; Casper Roos as Mayor and Cadmus; Oliva Williams as Korypheus;Rozwill Young as Cop and Guard; chorus of woman: Mary Ellen Grant, Sylvia Byrd-Leitner, Anne Lewis, Cynthia Marie Priopeau, Shoshana S.Shay, Kathleen L.Warner; chorus of men: Frank Berry, Floyd Wesley Green III, Todd Gross, Milo Morris.
Augusta Cheshire, Randy Hoffman marimba eroica; Robert Patterson, Robert Zollman bass marimba; Jon Szanto, Bruce Shaffin cloud-chamber bowls; Howard Johnson, Bill Kerrigan bamboo marimba; Jon Szanto spoils of war; Linda Shell-Pluth diamond marimba; William Ghezzi kithara I; Anne Sullivan kithara II; Carolyn Mather harmonic canon I; Karen McCabe harmonic canon II; Russell Ferrara adapted guitar I; William Newman adapted guitar II; Howard Levitsky chromelodeon I; Andrea Clarefield chromelodeon II; Ron Lipscomb cello; Steve Tanzer, Mary Burke piccolo; Tom Elliott, Scott vanPatter trombone; Bill Hughes, Scott Marino, Nancy Dowlin trumpet; Brian Brown tuba; Calvin Little bass; Linda Kade drum.
a. Revelation In The Courthouse Park Tomato-2696552
Issues: Tomato-2696552 (2 CD) as THE AMERICAN MUSIC THEATER FESTIVAL
PRODUCTION OF HARRY PARTCH'S REVELATION IN THE COURTHOUSE PARK.
2. alphanumerical listing of issues
Bootleg-RIP-000 (uat) 00-0000A, 58-0000A, 58-0000C
(unidentified album, info from B.Brchig)
Columbia MQ31227 (12"LP, 1972) THE WORLD OF HARRY PARTCH. 68-0900A/B/C (quadrophonic equivalent of Columbia-MS7207)
Columbia-MS7207 (12"LP, 1969) THE WORLD OF HARRY PARTCH. 68-0900A/B/C (stereophonic equivalent of Columbia-MQ31227)
Columbia-M2-30576 (2 12"LP, 1971) DELUSION OF THE FURY. 69-0100A
(this issue includes one more additional record as
THE INSTRUMENTS OF HARRY PARTCH.)
Composers-Recordings-Inc.-ACS-6001 (cassette, 1985) MUSIC OF HARRY PARTCH.
50-0000A, 57-0300A, 53-0000A, 64/66-0000
Composers-Recordings-Inc.-CD-7000 (CD, 1989) as THE MUSIC OF HARRY PARTCH.
50-0000A, 53-0000A, 57-0300A, 58-0000B, 64/66-0000
Composers-Recordings-Inc.-CD-7001 (CD, 1990) THE BEWITCHED.
57-0300A
Composers-Recordings-Inc.-CRI-193 (12"LP, 1964) FROM THE MUSIC OF
HARRY PARTCH. 50-0000A,53-0000A, 57-0300A, 58-0000B,
Composers-Recordings-Inc.-CRI-213 (12"LP, 1967) AND ON THE SEVENTH
DAY PETALS FELL IN PETALUMA. 64/66-0000
Composers-Recordings-Inc.-CRI-SD-304 (2 12"LP, 1973) THE BEWITCHED.
57-0300A
film soundtrack for Madeline Tourtelot's WINDSONG. 58-0000B
Gate-5-#1 (12"LP) PLECTRA AND PERCUSSION DANCES. 53-0000A
(originally (1953) released as a Harry-Partch-Trust-Fund-Edition.)
Gate-5-#2 (2 12"LP) OEDIPUS. 54-0000A (originally (1954) released as a
Harry-Partch-Trust-Fund-Edition.)
Gate-5-#3 (2 12"LP, 1957) THE BEWITCHED. 57-0300A
Gate-5-#4 (12"LP, 1957) PLECTRA AND PERCUSSION DANCES "SECOND EDITION".
53-0000A
Gate-5-#5 (12"LP, 1957) OEDIPUS "SECOND EDITION". 54-0000A
Gate-5-#6 (10"LP, 1958) U.S.HIGHBALL. 58-0000A
(also announced as "The Third Harry Partch Subscription Fund".)
Gate-5-#A (12" LP, 1962) THIRTY YEARS OF LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC MUSIC.
47-0000A, 58-0000B, 61-0000A, 61-0000B
Gate-5-#B (12"LP, 1962) THE WAYWARD. 50-0000A, 58-0000A, 58-0000C
Gate-5-#C (12"LP, 1962) PLECTRA AND PERCUSSION DANCES "SECOND EDITION".
53-0000A
Gate-5-#D (12"LP, 1962) OEDIPUS. 54-0000A
Gate-5-#E (12"LP, 1962) THE BEWITCHED. 57-0300A
Gate-5-#F (12"LP, 1962) REVELATION AT THE COURTHOUSE PARK. 61-0400A
Gate-5-#G (12"LP, 1962) WATER! WATER!/ROTATE THE BODY IN ALL ITS PLANES.
61-0400B, 62-0300A (released in 1962; by January 1963, Harry Partch
had withdrawn this recording.)
GME-Recordings-#??? (two 12" 78-rpm-disks) TEN SETTINGS OF LYRICS BY LI PO
47-0000A (privately issued by Warren E.Gilson, Madison WI (1947))
GME-Recordings-#??? (three 12" 78-rpm-disks) U.S.HIGHBALL
46-0000A (privately issued by Warren E.Gilson, Madison WI (1946))
LCM-Records-#??? (five 12" 78-rpm-disks) (uat) 50-0000A
(issued on a non-for-profit basis by Lauriston C.Marshall,
Berkeley CA (1951, reissued 1953))
Mode-CD18 (va) NEWBAND. 50-0000A (includes other recordings not related
to Harry Partch's works.)
New-World-Records-NW-214 (12"LP, 1978) HARRY PARTCH/JOHN CAGE.
47-0000A, 50-0000A, 72-0000A (also includes Cage's "Music of
Changes pts. 3+4")
Newport-Classics-NPD85526 (CD) (va) MICROTONAL PIANO 00-0000B
(includes other material not related to Harry Partch's works.)
(info from B.Brchig)
Orion-ORS-7294 (12"LP, 1972) (va) NEW MUSIC FOR TRUMPET. 71-0000A
(this album includes additional recordings of compositions by
Stravinsky, Ahlstrom, Erickson, Gaburo.)
Tomato-2696552 (2 CD, 1989) THE AMERICAN MUSIC THEATER FESTIVAL PRODUCTION
OF HARRY PARTCH'S REVELATION IN THE COURTHOUSE PARK. 87-1012
3. biographical data
01-0624 Oakland CA: Harry Partch *
04-0000 Tucson AZ
04-0000 Benson AZ
13-0000 Albuqzerque NM
14-0000 writing music; eventually (31-0000 destroyed)
19-0000 Hig School Grade (Albuquerque NM) father +
20-0000 Los Angeles CA mother +
20-0000 USCLA School Of Music Los Angeles CA
22-0000 Sacramento CA / San Francisco Bay Area
28-0000 building the first adapted viola
30-0000 New Orleans LA
31-0000 San Francisco CA
33-0000 Los Angeles CA
33-0000 New York NY
34-0000 London / Dublin / Malta / Italy
35-0000 building the adadpted guitar; starting Kithara I
36-0000 Phoenix AZ
38-0000 Los Angeles CA: building Kithara I
39-0000 California (various)
41-0000 Chicago IL: building first Chromelodeon I
41-0000 Barstow Carmel CA: rebuilding Adapted Guitar I lives in California: Carmel, Gualala, Oakland
42-0000 New York NY / Ithaca NY / Chappaqua / Boston MA
43-0000 Guggenheim Fellowship lives in California: Carmel, Gualala, Oakland
44-0000 Guggenheim Fellowship lives in California: Carmel, Gualala, Oakland
44-0000 in residence at University of Wisconsin, Madison WI
45-0000 building Harmonic Canon I, Adapted Guitar II
46-0000 building Diamond Marimba, another variant of Chromelodeon (I or II?)
47-0000 U.S.Highball. The Letter.
48-0000 Southern California (various)
49-0000 publication of Genesis of a Music Madison WI: building another Chromelodeon I
49-0000 Gualala CA: modification of Diamond Marimba,
50-0000 building Bass Marimba, building Cloud-Chamber Bowls (Pyrex glass from University of California, Berkeley CA) first building of Spoils of War
50-0000 Guggenheim Fellowship
51-0000 Oedipus Rex; first performance at Mills College, Oakland CA
51-0000 Oakland CA: building Marimba Eroica, rebuilding Bass-Marimba
53-0000 Sausalito CA: building Harmonic Canon II (Castor & Polux) "Gate 5" shipyard studio
54-0000 Sausalito CA: building Kithara II, Chromelodeon II, rebuilding Marimba Eroica
55-0000 building Boo I
55-0000 The Bewitched commissioned by Fromm Foundation (Chicago), and University of Illinois, Urbana IL.
56-0000 Urbana Champaign IL
57-0000 first performance of The Bewitched
57-0000 Yellow Springs OH: rebuilding Boo I
58-0000 Evanston: building Bloboy
59-0000 Urbana Champaign IL: building Crychord; rebuilding Kithara I, Harmonic Canon I, Chromelodeon II
60-0000 Urbana Champaign IL: remake of Marimba Eroica
60-0000 in Petaluma CA
60-0000 Revelation in the Courthouse Park
61-0000 Petaluma CA (chicken hatchery studio)
62-0000 Water, Water
63-0000 Petaluma CA: remake/modification of Marimba Eroica, rebuilding Boo I
64-0000 Del Mar CA
64-0000 Van Nuys CA
65-0000 Venice CA
66-0000 San Diego CA
67-0000 Solana Beach CA
68-0000 Los Angeles CA
69-0000 Encinitas CA
70-0000 La Jolla CA
71-0000 Encinitas CA: modification of Bass Marimba
73-0000 San Diego CA; second printing of Genesis of a Music
74-0903 San Diego CA: Harry Partch +
