Harry Partch Songtexte
Revelation in the Courthouse Park - Chorus One

1. I Am Harry Partch
2. By The Rivers Of Babylon (137th Psalm)
3. Texts And Music: A Wagnerian Wrestling Match
4. A Dream
5. An Encounter In The Field
6. On Hearing The Flute
7. The Intruder
8. I Am A Peach Tree
9. With A Man Of Leisure
10. A Midnight Farewell
11. Before The Cask Of Wine
12. On The Ship Of Spicewood
13. By The Great Wall
14. The Use Of English In Serious Music
15. Barstow — Eight Hitch-hikers' Inscriptions From A Highway Railing At Barstow, California
16. San Francisco — Newsboys Cries
17. Life Is Too Precious To Spend It With Important People
18. U.S. Highball — A Musical Account Of Slim's Transcontinental Hobo Trip
19. While My Heart Keeps Beating Time
20. San Francisco II

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1. I'm Going To Start Right Off By Giving You Some Sounds…
2. Isobel
3. Annah The Allmaziful
4. Dark Brother
5. Prelude To Talk
6. Introduction To Examples Of Intonation
7. Scale Of Olympos (Pentatonic)
8. Enharmonic Scale Of Archytas; Separated By 3/2's; Triads
9. Scale Of Pythagoras; Separated By 3/2's; Triads
10. Ptolemaic Intense Diatonic; Separated By 3/2's; Triads
11. Ptolemy's Equable Diatonic; Separated By 3/2's
12. Terpander's Hexatonic
13. Close Degrees
14. True And Tempered Triads
15. Resolutions From P. 186 Of Genesis Of A Music; Resolution P. 187; "Familiar" Resolution
16. Fox-Strangeways Resolutions
17. Tonal Flux From Genesis, P. 188; Tonal Flux From The Letter And Third Chorus Of Oedipus; Another From P. 188; Tonal Flux From Antiphony Of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…"
18. Multiple Tonal Senses From Antiphony Of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…"
19. Multiple Tonal Senses From Dark Brother, "And We Who Were Lost Are Found Again…"; "Until Our Hearts Are Corrupted, Out Talent Wasted, And Our Hope Gone."; "Have We Not Known Triumph, Joy, And Glory On This Earth?"
20. Melodic Subtleties From The Street, "Down Maxwell Street, Where The Prostitutes Stand In The Gloom…", U.S. Highball, "Back To The Freights For You, Boy."
21. Melodic Subtleties From The Bewitched
22. Instrumental Tunings: Harmonic Canon I As Iin Revelation; Petals; Chromelodeon Two Sets Of Reeds; Revelation
23. Dissonances And Consonance: Coda To Oedipus; Coda To Revelation

Extracts From Bitter Music, A Hobo Journal

1. June 11, 1935 — Santa Rosa, California
2. June 12 — Federal Shelter, Stockton
3. June 13
4. June 14
5. June 16 — Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta
6. June 17
7. July 4
8. July 14
9. July 16
10. July 19
11. July 20 — Heading North, Between Sacramento And Redding
12. July 24 — Federal Shelter, Portland
13. July 25 — Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington
14. July 27
15. July 29
16. July 30
17. August 7 — Between Grants Pass And Klamath Falls, Oregon
18. August 15
19. October 22 — Nearing Monterey
20. October 24 — Leaving Big Sur
21. October 25 — Near Slate's Hot Springs
22. October 26
23. October 27
24. October 28
25. October 29
26. October 30 — Big Creek
27. November 12 — Santa Barbara
28. November 14
29. November 15 — Leaving Santa Barbara
30. November 16 — Ojai
31. November 17
32. November 23 — Los Angeles
33. November 28
34. December 4
35. December, 1935
36. February 1, 1936 — San Bernardino

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1. Yankee Doodle Birds
2. Y.D. Fantasy — On The Words Of An Early American Tune
3. O Frabjous Day!
4. You Are Charged With Being Guilty. Are You Drunk Or Not?
5. Ring Around The Moon — A Dance Fantasm For Here And Now
6. Bless This Home
7. Harry's Wake

1. Introduction. True & Tempered Intervals
2. Scales
3. Progressions Within One Octave
4. Setting Texts
5. 2 Psalms: No. 1. The Lord Is My Shepherd
6. Intro to "A Dream"
7. 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 10b. A Dream
8. 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 2. On the City Street
9. 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 3. An Encounter in the Field
10. 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 7. The Night of Sorrow
11. 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 13. With a Man of Leisure
12. 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 14. A Midnight Farewell
13. Intro to "I Am a Peach Tree"
14. 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Excerpts): No. 17. I Am a Peach Tree
15. Intro "Barstow"
16. Barstow
17. Before
18. After

1. Castor & Pollux: Castor: Leda & the Swan (Insemination) (von Partch)
2. Castor & Pollux: Castor: Conception (von Partch)
3. Castor & Pollux: Castor: Incubation (von Partch)
4. Castor & Pollux: Castor: Chorus of Delivery from the Egg (von Partch)
5. Castor & Pollux: Pollux: Leda & the Swan (Insemination) (von Partch)
6. Castor & Pollux: Pollux: Conception (von Partch)
7. Castor & Pollux: Pollux: Incubation (von Partch)
8. Castor & Pollux: Pollux: Chorus of Delivery from the Egg (von Partch)
9. Ring Around the Moon: First Phase: “Ring Around the Moon” (von Partch)
10. Ring Around the Moon: Second Phase: “One, two, three, four…” (von Partch)
11. Ring Around the Moon: Third Phase: “Shake hands now boys…” (von Partch)
12. Ring Around the Moon: Fourth Phase: “Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus…“ (von Partch)
13. Even Wild Horses: Act I: Scene 1, A Decent and Honorable Mistake (von Partch)
14. Even Wild Horses: Act I: Scene 2, Rhythm of the Womb, Melody of the Grave (von Partch)
15. Even Wild Horses: Act I: Scene 3, Happy Birthday to You! (von Partch)
16. Even Wild Horses: Act II: Scene 1, “Nor These Lips Upon Your Eyes” (von Partch)
17. Even Wild Horses: Act II: Scene 2, “Hunger, Thirst, Shout, Dance!” (von Partch)
18. Even Wild Horses: Act II: Scene 3, “Land of Darkness and of Whirlwinds” (von Partch)
19. Even Wild Horses: Act III: Scene 1, “Had I Not Once a Lovely Youth?” (von Partch)
20. Even Wild Horses: Act III: Scene 2, “Let Us Contemplate Undazed the Endless Reaches of My Innocence” (von Partch)
21. Partch’s 1953 introduction to the live broadcast of the Premiere on KPFA-FM (Berkeley, California) (von Partch)

1. Castor & Pollux - A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini
2. Ring Around The Moon - A Dance for Here and Now
3. Even Wild Horses - Dance Music for an Absent Drama