Harry Partch - BBC Documentary - Part 1 of 6

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Description: Part 1 of a documentary about the composer Harry Partch who invented his own compositional method using a 43-tone scale and many instruments that he built by hand.
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tubafatness ::: Favorites Do you spend all day trolling for videos to theorize about? Yes, we get it, you hate anyone even remotely near the avant-garde. Enough already. Also, if you had actually read some of Partch's writing, you would know that, while considering the last 300 years of music a "mistake", he did not say that this invalidates all of the music. He even says he enjoys some of the music out there. I guess postulating on the state of modern classical music does take up a lot of one's time... 07-08-26 16:58:46 __________________________________________________
aquamammal ::: Favorites Awesome Documentary. Shame that the sound quality isn't so good. 07-08-20 00:59:08 __________________________________________________
richragsdale ::: Favorites i love his music thisis great thanks for posting! 07-08-16 23:47:52 __________________________________________________
ladyghosthunter ::: Favorites certain forms of african and eastern european music are more sophisticated than much of the classical music that succeeded it. this is a fact. polyrhythm and microtonality is not regression... it can be argued that this is a more sophisticated form of composition than the classical form. i argue that categorizing things so plainly is fascist and regressive. 07-08-16 00:51:03 __________________________________________________
juliandunn ::: Favorites Fascist pig! 07-08-14 02:42:03 __________________________________________________
lourak ::: Favorites part 3 They have littered our culture with artifacts, noises and pretensions that should be disdained by the artistically enlightened. A great misfortune! 07-08-05 11:30:36 __________________________________________________
lourak ::: Favorites part 2 Partch himself, claims that our 300 year tradition of Western music was "a mistake". The veracity of this notion, of course, is quite untestable and at best, philosophically sophmoric, and its formulation and practice, I believe, is best understood in socio/psychological terms, rather than in any theory of aesthetics - and may be nothing more than the "spirit of rebellion" as found in the work by Cage and an entire generation of "composers" which followed in his wake. 07-08-05 11:30:12 __________________________________________________
lourak ::: Favorites The appeal of Partch's music, like drugs, is quite understandable - and equally destructive to civilization (strong words - I know). There is nothing wrong with intuition and indeterminacy as components within artistic creations, but, if these are not subordinated to historically validated forms and structures, it risks bringing us back to pre-historic forms of expression - I would call that regression - for that we have nature, which does it much more elegantly. 07-08-05 11:29:14 __________________________________________________
RunTerranova ::: Favorites Gracias por estos videos. Se me ha dificultado conseguir su musica por aca, y mas informacion acerca de él, y con esto resuelvo muchos suposiciones y curiosidades. Gracias otra vez. 07-07-12 10:39:18 __________________________________________________
mervynpeek ::: Favorites This is the sort of thing that I love finding on YouTube. I just searched on Partch on a whim, wondering what I'd find, and this popped up. What a treat! I remember discovering a Harry Partch record in my junior high school library in 1967. From this video I'm learning things about him I never knew. Thanks for posting. 07-05-08 02:11:29 __________________________________________________