The Climate Since Harry Partch

Gilmore, Bob (2003) The Climate Since Harry Partch. Contemporary Music Review, 22 (1-2). pp. 15-33. ISSN 0749-4467

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This article is one of two commissioned for a special, two-part issue (entitled ‘Microtones and Microtonalities’) of one of the leading journals devoted to the field of contemporary music. (The other article is “‘ Wild Ocean”: An interview with Horatiu Radulescu’, pp.105-122, 10.1080/0749446032000134760). The output cited is a reflection, on the occasion of his centenary, on the legacy of Harry Partch, the American composer, theorist and instrument builder who was the focus of Gilmore’s earlier research. The article was first given in the form of an invited lecture at the microtonal music conference Het Verfijnde Oor at the Conservatorium in Amsterdam in 2002, and subsequently reworked and expanded. The article discusses Partch’s impact on compositional practice in the U.S. and Europe, and is concerned to dispel some myths about his influence in those areas, as well as to discuss in detail the impact of his thinking on contemporary practitioners.

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