Harry Partch
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1901
- Died
- 1974
- Works
- 26
Top works
- Genesis of a music
- Delusion of the fury
- The world of Harry Partch
- From the music of Harry Partch
- The rose
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Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with microtonal scales, writing much of his music for instruments he built himself, tuned in 11-limit just intonation. Interested in the potential musicality of speech, Partch worked out his first extended scales to notate the inflections of the speaking voice. He built his adapted viola to demonstrate the concept. <a href="https://
Key dates
- Born
- 24 June 1901
- Died
- 3 September 1974
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Harry
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Oakland
- Place of death
- San Diego
- Occupation
- inventor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- outsider music
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Categories
1901 births1974 deaths20th-century American artisans20th-century American classical composers20th-century American inventors20th-century American LGBTQ people20th-century American male composers20th-century American multi-instrumentalists20th-century American musicologistsAmerican avant-garde musiciansAmerican classical violistsAmerican experimental composers