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I am Harry Partch (0:24) -- By the Rivers of Babylon (3:25) -- Texts and Music: A Wagnerian Wrestling Match (1:22) -- 17 Lyrics of Li Po: A Dream (4:34) -- 17 Lyrics of Li Po: An Encounter in the Field (0:47) -- 17 Lyrics of Li Po: On Hearing the Flute (1:00) -- 17 Lyrics of Li Po: The Intruder (1:10) -- 17 Lyrics of Li Po: I am a Peach Tree (1:26) -- 17 Lyrics of Li Po: With a Man of Leisure (0:47) -- 17 Lyrics of Li Po: A Midnight Farewell (1:19) -- 17 Lyrics of Li Po: Before the Cask of Wine (2:10) -- 17 Lyrics of Li Po: On the Ship of Spicewood (2:31) -- 17 Lyrics of Li Po: By the Great Wall (1:56) -- The Use of English in Serious Music (0:57) -- Barstow: 8 Hitchhikers' Inscriptions (8:26) -- San Francisco: A Setting of the Cries of Two Newsboys on a Foggy Night in the Twenties (2:29) -- Life Is too precious to spend It with important people (1:29) -- US Highball: A Musical Account of a Transcontinental Hobo Trip (26:46) -- My Heart Keeps Beating Time (1:36) -- San Francisco II (2:50) -- I'm going to start right off by giving you some sounds… (0:30) -- 2 Settings from Finnegans Wake: No. 1, Isobel (2:53) -- 2 Settings from Finnegans Wake: No. 2, Annah the Allmaziful (2:20) -- Dark Brother (7:37) -- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Prelude to Talk (2:14) -- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Introduction to Examples Oo Intonation (6:05) -- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Scale of Olympos (Pentatonic) (1:05) -- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Enharmonic Scale of Archytas; Separated by 3/2's; Triads (1:35) -- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Scale of Pythagoras; Separated by 3/2's; Triads (1:07) -- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Ptolemaic Intense Diatonic; Separated by 3/2's; Triads (0:53) -- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Ptolemy's Equable Diatonic; Separated by 3/2's (1:24) -- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Terpander's Hexatonic (1:52) -- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Close Degrees (1:08) -- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: True and Tempered Triads (1:23) -- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Resolutions from p. 186 of Genesis of a Music; Resolution p. 187; "Familiar" Resolution (2:24) -- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Fox-Strangeways Resolutions (2:27) -- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Tonal Flux from Genesis, p. 188; Tonal Flux from the Letter and Third Chorus of Oedipus; Another p. 188; Tonal Flux from Antiphony of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…" (3:56) -- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Multiple Tonal Senses from Antiphony of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…" (2:39) -- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Multiple Tonal Senses from Dark Brother, "and we who were lost Are found again…"; "until our hearts Are corrupted, out talent wasted, and our hope gone."; "Have we not known triumph, joy, and glory on (4:04) -- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Melodic Subtleties from the Street, "Down Maxwell Street, where the prostitutes stand in the gloom…", U.S. Highball, "Back to the freights for you, boy." (1:45) -- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Melodic Subtleties from the Bewitched (6:12) -- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Instrumental Tunings: Harmonic Canon I as in Revelation; Petals; Chromelodeon two sets of reeds; Revelation (10:42) -- A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Dissonances and Consonance: Coda to Oedipus; Coda to Revelation (6:52) -- Bitter Music: June 11, 1935 - Santa Rosa, California (0:27) -- Bitter Music: June 12 - Federal Shelter, Stockton (3:36) -- Bitter Music: June 13 (1:28) -- Bitter Music: June 14 (2:22) -- Bitter Music: June 16 - Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta (3:27) -- Bitter Music: June 17 (0:26) -- Bitter Music: July 4 (3:50) -- Bitter Music: July 14 (0:49) -- Bitter Music: July 16 (1:16) -- Bitter Music: July 19 (1:11) -- Bitter Music: July 20 - Heading North, Between Sacramento and Redding (2:23) -- Bitter Music: July 24 - Federal Shelter, Portland (2:25) -- Bitter Music: July 25 - Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington (6:15) -- Bitter Music: July 27 (0:33) -- Bitter Music: July 29 (0:24) -- Bitter Music: July 30 (0:28) -- Bitter Music: August 7 - Between Grants Pass and Klamath Falls, Oregon (1:56) -- Bitter Music: August 15 (1:30) -- Bitter Music: October 22 - Nearing Monterey (5:01) -- Bitter Music: October 24 - Leaving Big Sur (2:32) -- Bitter Music: October 25 - Near Slate's Hot Springs (2:56) -- Bitter Music: October 26 (1:20) -- Bitter Music: October 27 (0:35) -- Bitter Music: October 28 (0:17) -- Bitter Music: October 29 (1:27) -- Bitter Music: October 30 - Big Creek (0:53) -- Bitter Music: November 12 - Santa Barbara (2:23) -- Bitter Music: November 14 (0:30) -- Bitter Music: November 15 - Leaving Santa Barbara (4:17) -- Bitter Music: November 16 - Ojai (0:56) -- Bitter Music: November 17 (1:02) -- Bitter Music: November 23 - los Angeles (0:28) -- Bitter Music: November 28 (0:18) -- Bitter Music: December 4 (0:42) -- Bitter Music: December, 1935 (8:44) -- Bitter Music: February 1, 1936 - San Bernardino (4:00) -- Yankee Doodle Birds (0:37) -- Yankee Doodle Fantasy (3:57) -- 2 Settings from Lewis Carroll: O Frabjous Day! (3:12) -- You Are charged with being guilty. Are you drunk or not? (1:02) -- Ring Around the Moon, a Dance Fantasm for Here and Now (9:03) -- Bless This Home (3:25) -- Harrys Wake (46:25)