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Genre/Form: | Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc Biography |
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Named Person: | Harry Partch; Harry Partch |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Harry Partch; Thomas McGeary |
ISBN: | 0252069137 9780252069130 9057550652 9789057550652 |
OCLC Number: | 1037554605 |
Description: | xxx, 487 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.). |
Series Title: | Music in American life. |
Responsibility: | Harry Partch ; edited with an introduction by Thomas McGeary. |
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"It is said that [Partch] is the most innovative, iconoclastic and genuinely American composer of our century and Thomas McGeary, by his excellent editing, has allowed us to understand these statements."--John Beck, Percussive Notes "This splendid collection is a great step forward for Partch."--Peter Dickinson, Musical Times "This important book documents an often overlooked, yet influential, contributor to twentieth-century American musical life, and deserves a wide audience."--Richard Kassel, Notes "Bitter Music [is] a collation of Partch's miscellaneous writings and lectures. . . . [The] book offers occasion for gratitude, for it reminds us that (in the words of Lou Harrison, the Californian composer who has to a degree assumed Partch's mantle): 'Harry told the truth about tune, as Kinsey did about sex.'"--Wilfred Mellers, Times Literary Supplement Read more...

