The World of Harry Partch Sealed / New 1969 Original Columbia MS 7207
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Harry Partch ~ The World of Harry Partch Factory Sealed / Factory New 1969 Original, 1st pressing. Columbia Records - MS 7207 Cover is VG+ to VG++, mostly VG++: edge-wear and indentations; shrink is mostly intact and coming undone on a few spots along the edges. Out of print original. Note: there is camera-glare on the cover in the pictures from the lighting - there are no discolorations on the cover.
"The child of former missionaries, composer Harry Partch grew up in a musical family, and at an early age taught himself to play the guitar, harmonium, clarinet, and other instruments. During his early school years in Arizona and New Mexico he had some rudimentary music lessons, which he found unexciting and conventional. He wrote a considerable amount of music as a youth, but set it all afire in a pot-bellied stove around 1930.
Partch's intensive studies in music history and intonation led him to reject conventional Western tunings and musical techniques. He devised a 43-note octave, and started adapting and building instruments to perform the new kind of music he was envisioning. Employment was hard to come by in those years, and Partch spent the Depression wandering the United States as a hobo, doing occasional odd jobs. Those experiences are reflected in his early works Barstow -- 8 Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California (1941) and U.S. Highball -- A Musical Account of a Transcontinental Hobo Trip (1943)."...
-allmusic
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