Bitter Music collects writings by one of the twentieth century's great musical iconoclasts. Rejecting the equal temperament and concert traditions that have dominated western music, Harry Partch adopted the pure intervals of just intonation and devised a 43-tone-to-the-octave scale, which in turn forced him into inventing numerous musical instruments. His compositions realize his ideal of a corporeal music that unites music, dance, and theater. Winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, Bitter Music includes two journals ...
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Bitter Music collects writings by one of the twentieth century's great musical iconoclasts. Rejecting the equal temperament and concert traditions that have dominated western music, Harry Partch adopted the pure intervals of just intonation and devised a 43-tone-to-the-octave scale, which in turn forced him into inventing numerous musical instruments. His compositions realize his ideal of a corporeal music that unites music, dance, and theater. Winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, Bitter Music includes two journals kept by Partch, one while wandering the West Coast during the Depression and the other as he hiked the rugged northern California coastline. It also includes Partch's essays on and discussions of his own compositions, as well as librettos and scenarios for six major narrative/dramatic works.
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Good. Text block firm and clean, binding unblemished, boards straight, without highlights or underlining. Without dust wrapper. Very clean, very nice example. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0252016602. Hardcover with dustjacket, first printing as indicated by the publisher's "1" in the number line on copyright page, book and jacket are in excellent condition, there are no remarkable flaws and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, a fine collector's/gift copy, presents Partch's ideas about the place of music in society, his work as a composer, his compositions, and his unique instruments"; 487 pages.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Spine a bit sun-faded. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 487 p. Music in American Life (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade.