Harry Partch
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title:
Harry Partch
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Harry Partch was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique 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, alongside Lou Harrison. He built his own instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions, and described the method behind his theory and practice in his book Genesis of a Music (1947). Partch composed with scales d
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American composer (1901–1974)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Partch
date created:
2002-11-16T00:20:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T22:07:04Z
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