HARRY PARTCH - Plectra & Percussion Dances Orig GATE 5 1953 Green Vinylite 1st
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Very Rare 1st Press Self-Released in 1953 Harry Partch's first album.
Harry Partch first edition of Plectra & Percussion Dances, Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theatre. Special subscribers' edition of 500 copies pressed on green unbreakable 12-inch vinylite.
- Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A, stamped -- 3 in a diamond): HP-1 <3>
This group of three pieces, intended by Harry Partch as a single triptych, was performed several times in the 1950s, incompletely and with an incomplete ensemble. Partch himself discusses the work in these terms in an included spoken introduction from 1953, worth the price of admission in itself. This release marks its first complete performance, and the group of performers, simply called Partch, is ideal: they have studied Partch's music in depth, including his often difficult notation system, and they know it well enough to make it fun. Which it should be and is here. The Plectra and Percussion Dances are accurately titled. They were actually intended for dancers, and a performance that included them would be the next stage in the revival of an eminently worthwhile work, but they work without them. They're for varied small ensembles of plucked and percussion instruments that periodically join forces into larger ones, and the rhythms are constantly varied. The most fun is the central section, Ring Around the Moon, where a speaking voice is added and does such surprising things as end one section with the words "Well, bless my soul!" and another with "Shake hands now, boys, and when the bell rings, come out fighting." More even than an important Partch premiere, this is one of those rare releases that presents Partch's music in its proper playful spirit.
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