▶ And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma (Harry Partch)

 "There is some surprising mouth harp on 18:59" * 

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Published on Aug 12, 2014 by New World Records / CRi

And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma (Harry Partch)
Gate 5 Ensemble; Danlee Mitchell, Harry Partch, Michael Ranta, Emil Richards, Wallace Snow, Stephen Tosh

from "The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 2"
New World Records 80622-2
http://www.newworldrecords.org/album....

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* thanks to Vassilis Onesecbeforetheend Galanos in the Facebook group Khomus & Khomus

note: the town of Petaluma is just over the hill from me!


Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales. He built custom-made instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions, and described his theory and practice in his book Genesis of a Music (1947)... 
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