Bitter music : collected journals, essays, introductions, and librettos / Harry Partch ; edited with an introduction by Thomas McGeary.

This book 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...

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Main Author: Partch, Harry, 1901-1974
Other Authors: McGeary, Thomas, 1948- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1991.
Series:Music in American life.
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Call Number: ML410 .P176 A3 1991
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