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box 1, folder 1, oversize FB45901
AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY PETALS FELL IN PETALUMA
1964 - 1966
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Twenty-three one minute duets and trios which later become ten quartets and quintets and one septet. Two copies.
box 1, folder 2, oversize FB45902
AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY PETALS FELL IN PETALUMA
1966
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Explanation of substitute verse 31 (p.55).
box 1, folder 3, oversize FB45903
BARSTOW- Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California
1956
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As part of THE WAYWARD.
box 1, folder 4, oversize FB45904
BARSTOW- Voice parts
1941
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Originally adapted guitar and voice; rewritten for two voices, surrogate kithara, chromelodeon, diamond marimba and boo in
1955.
box 1, folder 5, oversize FB45905
BEWITCHED- A Ballet Satire
1955
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In ten scenes. Version 1.
box 1, folder 6, oversize FB45906
BEWITCHED- A Dance Satire
1955
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In ten scenes. Version 2.
box 1, folder 7, oversize FB45907
BLESS THIS HOME- Poem by Vincenzo Prockelo
1961
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Written for Gary and Susie Everett.
box 1, folder 8, oversize FB45908
DAPHNE OF THE DUNES
1958
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A re-copying of the score composed for the WINDSONG in 1958.
box 1, folder 9, oversize FB45909
DARK BROTHER
1942 - 1943
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Text from Thomas Wolfe- GOD'S LONELY MAN.
box 2, folder 1, oversize FB46001
DELUSION OF THE FURY- A RITUAL OF DREAM AND DELUSION
1966
box 2, folder 2, oversize FB46002
DREAMER THAT REMAINS- A Study in Loving
1972
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Original music commissioned by Betty Freeman to constitute a part of the film "Harry Partch- A Study in Loving".
box 2, folder 3, oversize FB46003
ELEVEN INTRUSIONS
1949 - 1950
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Numbers 1 and 2 are "Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales".
box 2, folder 4, oversize FB46004
ELEVEN POEMS BY LI PO
1922
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Set to Music by Harry Partch. Text from THE WORKS OF LI PO, the Chinese poet.
box 2, folder 5, oversize FB46005
EVEN WILD HORSES- Dance Music for an Absent Drama
1952
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Text from Arthur Rimband's SEASONS IN HELL.
box 2, folder 6, oversize FB46006
LETTER- A DEPRESSION MESSAGE FROM A HOBO FRIEND, First written in 1943
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A special rewriting for the Freeman-Pouliot film.
box 2, folder 7, oversize FB46007
LORD IS MY SHEPHERD
1931
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Spoken expression by Cantor Reuben Rinder of San Francisco.
box 3, folder 1, oversize FB46101
OEDIPUS- Dance-Drama
1951 - 1954
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The text is an abbreviated version of Sophocles' OEDIPUS THE KING.
box 3, folder 2, oversize FB46102
OEDIPUS THE KING
1950 - 1967
box 3, folder 3, oversize FB46103
PLECTRA AND PERCUSSION DANCES- AN EVENING OF DANCE THEATER
1949 - 1952
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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, oversize FB46201
REVELATION IN THE COURTHOUSE PARK- After the Bacchae of Euripides
1960
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A "double-tale" which alternates between THE BACCHAE and a modern parallel.
box 4, folder 2, oversize FB46202
RING AROUND THE MOON- A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now
1949 - 1950
box 4, folder 3, oversize FB46203
ROTATE THE BODY IN ALL ITS PLANES- Ballet for gymnasts
1961
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Music for an exhibition by Charles Pond's gymnasts at the University of Illinois.
box 4, folder 4, oversize FB46204
SIX POEMS BY LI PO
1922
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Set to music by Harry Partch. Texts from THE WORKS OF LI PO, the Chinese poet.
box 4, folder 5, oversize FB46205
Sophocles' KING OEDIPUS- Music, Dance, Drama- Based on the version by W.B. Yeats
1950 - 1967
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For a Intoners- Actors, other actors, singing voices, dancers, and two musicians.
box 4, folder 6, oversize FB46206
SUMMER 1955- A collection of small compositions written or rewritten in Summer
1955
box 4, folder 7, oversize FB46207
TWO SETTINGS FROM JOYCE'S FINNEGAN'S WAKE- "Isobel" and "Annah the Allmaziful"
1944
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For soprano, kithara, and two flutes.
box 4, folder 8, oversize FB46208
TWO STUDIES ON ANCIENT GREEK SCALES
1946
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For harmonic canon, bass marimba added.
box 4, folder 9, oversize FB46209
ULYSSES DEPARTS FROM THE EDGE OF THE WORLD- A Minor Adventure in Rhythm- First version
1955
box 5, folder 1, oversize FB46301
ULYSSES DEPARTS FROM THE EDGE OF THE WORLD- Second version
1955
box 5, folder 2, oversize FB46302
U.S. HIGHBALL- Voice parts
1943
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Originally for voice, adapted guitar, kithara, chromelodeon; rewritten in 1955.
box 5, folder 3, oversize FB46303
WATER! WATER!- An intermission with prologues and epilogues
1961
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Includes left and right chorus.
box 5, folder 4, oversize FB46304
WAYWARD
1941 - 1955
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A collection of musical compositions based on the spoken and written words of hobos and other characters - The result of my
wanderings in the Western part of the United States from 1935 to 1941.
box 5, folder 5, oversize FB46305
WINDSONG
1955
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For film by Madeline Tourtelot. Rewritten as DAPHNE OF THE DUNES, 1967.
box 5, folder 6, oversize FB46306
YANKEE DOODLE FANTASY
1944
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On the Words of an Early American Tune.
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