tracks

Study On Olympos' Pentatonic
Study On Archytas' Enharmonic
The Rose
The Crane
The Waterfall
The Wind
The Street
Lover
Soldiers - War - Another War
Vanity
Cloud-Chamber Music
Castor: Leda And The Swan/Insemination (Kithara & Surrogate Kithara And Cloud-Chamber Bowls) / Conception (Harmonic Canon And High Bass Marimba) / Incubation (Diamond Marimba And Low Bass Marimba) / Chorus Of Delivery (All The Foregoing Instruments)
Pollux: Leda And The Swan/Insemination (Kithara & Surrogate Kithara And Low Bass Marimba) / Conception (Harmonic Canon And Cloud-Chamber Bowls) / Incubation (Diamond Marimba And High Bass Marimba) / Chorus Of Delivery (All The Foregoing Instruments)
Phase One - Well, Bless My Soul! (Well, Bless My Soul!)
Phase Two - One, Two, Three, Four - X, Y, Zee
Phase Three - Shake Hands Now, Boys, And At The Sound Of The Bell Come Out Fighting!
Phase Four - Mumbo Jumbo, Hocus Pocus, Hoity Toity, Hotsy Totsy, Acey Ducey, Hoochy Koochy (Look Out! He's Got A Gun!)
Act I, Scene 1: A Decent And Honorable Mistake (Samba)
Act I, Scene 2: Rhythm Of The Womb - Melody Of The Grave (Heartbeat Rhythm)
Act I, Scene 3: Happy Birthday To You! (Afro-Chinese Minuet)
Act II, Scene 1: “Nor These Lips Upon Your Eyes” (Rumba)
Act II, Scene 2: “Hunger, Thirst, Shouts, Dance!” (Nañiga)
Act II, Scene 3: “Land Of Darkness And Of Whirlwinds” (Slow, Fast, Wild!)
Act III, Scene 1: “Had I Not Once A Lovely Youth?” (Conga)
Act III, Scene 2: “Let Us Contemplate Undazed The Endless Reaches Of My Innocence” (Tahitian Dance)
Ulysses At The Edge (1955)

notes

Tracks 1-11 Recorded in 1950–51 in Gualala, California, by Harry Lindgren. First released on Partch Compositions, a five-record 78 rpm set by Lauriston C. Marshall, Berkeley, California.

Tracks 12-25 Recorded in 1953 in Sausalito, California, by Oscar Anderson. First released as Harry Partch Trust Fund First Edition in 1953.

Tracks 14-17 ("Ring Around The Moon") are composed for Speaking Voice (on tones), Adapted Guitar II, Kithara, Harmonic Canon, Chromelodeon I, Chromelodeon Sub-bass, Cloud-Chamber Bowls and Marimba Eroica (one player), Diamond Marimba, Bass Marimba.

Tracks 18-25 ("Even Wild Horses...) are composed for Adapted Viola, Adapted Guitar III, Kithara, Harmonic Canon, Chromelodeon and Sub-bass, Diamond Marimba, Bass Marimba, Cloud-Chamber Bowls, 9/8 Marimba Eroica, wood block and cymbal, tenor saxophone and/or baritone voice.

Track 26 recorded in 1958 in Evanston, Illinois, by James Cunningham. First released on Gate 5 Records, Issue B, in 1962.

credits

Conductor – Horace Schwartz (tracks: 12-25)
Lead Vocals, Performer [Instrumentalist], Composed By – Harry Partch (tracks: 1-11)
Marimba [Bamboo], Percussion [Cloud-chamber Bowls] – Danlee Mitchell (tracks: 26)
Marimba [Diamond], Percussion [Cloud-chamber Bowls], Composed By – Harry Partch (tracks: 26)
Performer [Gate 5 Ensemble] – Allen Smith (tracks: 12-25), Henry Jaramillo (tracks: 12-25), Jerry Schimmel (tracks: 12-25), Lynn Ludlow (tracks: 12-25), Marc Smith (5) (tracks: 12-25), Meyer Slivka (tracks: 12-25), Richard Barnett (tracks: 12-25), Robert Garfias (tracks: 12-25), Ruita Churchill (tracks: 12-25), Vincent Delgado (tracks: 12-25)
Performer [Gate 5 Ensemble], Composed By – Harry Partch (tracks: 12-25)
Performer [Instrumentalist] – Ben Johnston (tracks: 1-11), Betty Johnston (tracks: 1-11), Bill Snead (tracks: 1-11), Donald Pippin (tracks: 1-11)
Recorded By – Harry Lindgren (tracks: 1-11), James Cunningham (2) (tracks: 26), Oscar Anderson (tracks: 12-25)
Saxophone [Alto] – Dick Schleppe (tracks: 26)
Vocals – Allan Louw (tracks: 18-25), Lynn Ludlow (tracks: 14-17)
Vocals, Saxophone [Baritone] – David Reid (tracks: 26)

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