Tag Archives: classical music
The Beautiful Noise of Harry Partch
I first heard of Harry Partch while reading about Tom Waits. With 1980′s Heartattack and Vine, Waits hung up his fedora, turning his back on the piano-based, cabaret croaking of his early years for the strange territories of his breakthrough trilogy: Swordfishtrombones (1983), my favorite Waits’ album Rain Dogs (1985) and Frank’s Wild Years (1987). [...]
Posted in Music
Tagged 12-note octave, 20th Century, classical music, Harry Partch, Hermann Helmholtz, scale, Tom Waits
Leave a comment
