VINYL FORMAT. Gatefold 180 gram vinyl reissue, originally released in 1971. "In this long-awaited masterwork, Harry Partch rises above all attempts at descriptive containment and becomes quite simply heroic. Delusions of the Fury, proceeding from tragedy to comedy, is nothing less than the full, ritualistic expression, in vocal instrumental and corporeal terms, of the reconciliation by the living both with death and with life. It is a total Partch statement, incorporating voices, mime, his celebrated instr...   [ read more ]

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Written from 1963-1969, this stage work in two parts is for singers, mimes, dancers and musicians playing on 25 of the beautiful microtonal instruments designed and built over the years by this legendary composer who was the first thinker on tuning theory in centuries (see his famous book Genesis of a Music, an exposition on his theories and instruments). The stage set is made up of the instruments themselves, mostly tuned to Partch's 43-tone scale; the instrumentalists may also take over the roles o...   [ read more ]

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Partch based this, one of his earliest extant works, on the texts of the 8th-century Chinese poet Li Po. Written between 1931 and 1933, The Seventeen Lyrics were composed for Intoning Voice and Partch's creation the Adapted Viola, a hybrid consisting of a cello neck grafted onto a viola's body, its open strings tuned one octave below a violin. Performing the work on this 1995 recording are tenor violinist Ted Mook and intoning voice Stephen Kalm. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

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