Harry Partch (1901-1974) was a largely self-taught composer, music theorist, and musical instrument maker. He is a member of the Hall of Fame of the Percussive Arts Society and the author of Genesis of a Music.Thomas McGeary is the compiler of The Music of Harry Partch: A Descriptive Catalog and a contributor to The Blackwell History of Music in Great Britain. He also received an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for his translation and edition of Arnold Schoenberg's "Brahms the Progressive" for the Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute.
Winner of an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, 1992.
"Bitter Music [is] a collation of Partch's miscellaneous writings
and lectures. . . . [The] book offers occasion for gratitude, for
it reminds us that (in the words of Lou Harrison, the Californian
composer who has to a degree assumed Partch's mantle): ‘Harry told
the truth about tune, as Kinsey did about sex.'"--Wilfred
Mellers, Times Literary Supplement
"This important book documents an often overlooked, yet
influential, contributor to twentieth-century American musical
life, and deserves a wide audience."--Richard
Kassel, Notes
"This splendid collection is a great step forward for
Partch."--Peter Dickinson, Musical Times
"It is said that [Partch] is the most innovative, iconoclastic and
genuinely American composer of our century and Thomas McGeary, by
his excellent editing, has allowed us to understand these
statements."--John Beck, Percussive Notes
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