Research Catalog
The bewitched
- Title
- The bewitched / Harry Partch.
- Author
- Partch, Harry, 1901-1974.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : CRI, [1973], ℗1973.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audio | Use in library | LS2893 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 2 audio discs (76 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo; 12 in.
- Subject
- Note
- CRI: 304 (on container: SD 304).
- "A dance-satire ... featuring musical instruments designed and built by the composer"--Container.
- For female solo voice, chorus, and chamber orchestra.
- Originally released on the composer\u0027s Gate 5 label and later condensed and reissued on CRI 193.
- "Electronically rechanneled for stereo"--Container.
- Program notes by the composer on container.
- Event (note)
- Recorded 1957 at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
- Contents
- Prologue -- The lost musicians mix magic -- Three undergrads become transfigured in a Hong Kong music hall -- Exercises in harmony and counterpoint are tried in a court of ancient ritual -- The romancing of a pathological liar comes to an inspired end -- A soul tormented by contemporary music finds a humanizing alchemy -- Visions fill the eyes of a defeated basketball team in the shower room -- Euphoria descends a Sausalito stairway --Two detectives on the trail of a tricky culprit turn in their badges -- A court in its own contempt rises to a motherly apotheosis -- A lost political soul finds himself among the voteless women of paradise -- The cognoscenti are plunged into a demonic descent while at cocktails -- Epilogue.
- LCCN
- 73750240
- OCLC
- ocm04026533
- SCSB-5148501
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries