And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma1964 - 1966
General
Twenty-three one minute duets and trios which later become ten quartets and quintets and one septet. Explanation of substitute
verse 31 (p.55).
Box 1, Folder 3-4
Barstow - Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California1941 - 1956
General
Voice parts: originally adapted guitar and voice, 1941; rewritten for two voices, surrogate kithara, chromelodeon, diamond
marimba and boo in 1955.
Box 1, Folder 5-6
The Bewitched1955
General
Version 1 - A Ballet Satire. Version 2 - A Dance Satire.
Box 1, Folder 7
Bless This Home1961
General
Poem by Vincenzo Prockelo, written for Gary and Susie Everett.
Box 1, Folder 8
Daphne of the Dunes1958
General
A re-copying of the score composed for the film
Windsong.
Box 1, Folder 9
Dark Brother1942 - 1943
General
Text from Thomas Wolfe's essay "God's Lonely Man."
Box 2, Folder 1
Delusion of the Fury - A Ritual of Dream and Delusion1966
Box 2, Folder 2
The Dreamer that Remains - A Study in Loving1972
General
Original music commissioned by Betty Freeman to constitute a part of the film
Harry Partch - A Study in Loving.
Box 2, Folder 3
Eleven Intrusions1949 - 1950
General
Numbers 1 and 2 are
Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales.
Box 2, Folder 4
Eleven Poems by Li Po1922
General
Texts from the works of Chinese poet Li Po, set to music by Harry Partch.
Box 2, Folder 5
Even Wild Horses - Dance Music for an Absent Drama1952
General
The French texts at the ends of the five final scenes are from
Une Saison en Enfer, by Arthur Rimbaud. Titles of these scenes are taken from the English translation by Louise Varese, 1945.
Box 2, Folder 6
The Letter - A Depression Message from a Hobo Friend1972
General
First written in 1943. A special rewriting for the Freeman-Pouliot film.
Box 2, Folder 7
The Lord is My Shepherd1931
General
Spoken expression by Cantor Reuben Rinder of San Francisco.
Box 3, Folder 1-2
Oedipus1951 - 1967
General
Dance-drama. The text is an abbreviated version of Sophocles'
Oedipus the King.
Box 3, Folder 3
Plectra and Percussion Dances - An Evening of Dance Theater1949 - 1952
General
1.
Castor and Pollux - A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini 2.
Ring Around the Moon - A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now 3.
Even Wild Horses - A Dance for an Absent Drama.
Box 4, Folder 1
Revelation in the Courthouse Park1960
General
After
The Bacchae of Euripides. A "double-tale" which alternates between
The Bacchae and a modern parallel.
Box 4, Folder 2
Ring Around the Moon - A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now1949 - 1950
Box 4, Folder 3
Rotate the Body in All Its Planes - Ballad for Gymnasts1961
General
Music for an exhibition by Charles Pond's gymnasts at the University of Illinois.
Box 4, Folder 4
Six Poems by Li Po1922
General
Texts from the works of Chinese poet Li Po, set to music by Harry Partch.
Box 4, Folder 5
Sophocles'
King Oedipus1950 - 1967
General
Music-Dance-Drama. Based on the version by W.B. Yeats. For 4 intoners-actors, other actors, singing voices, dancers, and 11
musicians.
Box 4, Folder 6
Summer 1955
General
A collection of small compositions written or rewritten in summer 1955.
Box 4, Folder 7
Two Settings From Joyce's Finnegan's Wake
1944
General
1. Isobel 2. Annah the Allmaziful. For soprano, kithara, and two flutes.
Box 4, Folder 8
Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales1946
General
For harmonic canon, bass marimba added.
Box 4, Folder 9
Ulysses Departs from the Edge of the World - A Minor Adventure in Rhythm1955
General
First version.
Box 5, Folder 1
Ulysses Departs from the Edge of the World1955
General
Second version.
Box 5, Folder 2
U.S. Highball1943 - 1955
General
Voice parts, 1943. Originally for voice, adapted guitar, kithara, chromelodeon; rewritten in 1955.
Box 5, Folder 3
Water! Water!1961
General
An intermission with prologues and epilogues. Includes left and right chorus.
Box 5, Folder 4
The Wayward1941 - 1955
General
1.
Barstow 2.
San Francisco 3.
The Letter 4.
U.S. Highball 5.
Ulysses at the Edge. A collection of musical compositions based on the spoken and written words of hobos and other characters, 1941-1955. The
result of my wanderings in the Western part of the United States from 1935 to 1941.
Box 5, Folder 5
Windsong1955
General
For film by Madeline Tourtelot, 1955. Rewritten as
Daphne of the Dunes, 1967.
Box 5, Folder 6
Yankee Doodle Fantasy - On the Words of an Early American Tune1944