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Printed Score

Author

Partch, Harry, 1901-1974.

Title Barstow : eight hitchhiker inscriptions from a highway railing at Barstow, California (1968 version) / Harry Partch ; edited by Richard Kassel.

Imprint

Madison, Wis. : Published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions, c2000.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	780.973 R243 v.39	---	Available
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	780.973 R243 v.39 score	---	Available

Description	1 score (lxxix, 62 p.) : ill. ; 30+ cm. + 1 score (27 p.).
Series	Recent researches in American music, 0147-0078 ; v. 39
	Music of the United States of America ; 9
Note	For rhythmic speaking and/or singing voice (baritone-tenor), chorus voice (baritone), and instruments constructed by the composer.
	Part 1 of his The wayward.
	Includes non-standard notation.
	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Foreword -- Pref. -- Barstow as history : an introduction to the sound world of Harry Partch -- Plates -- Barstow [transcription of original tablature score of version VII (1968) into a notation for just intonation developed by Ben Johnston] -- Apparatus -- Appendices : instrument charts -- Facsimile of 1968 version [27 p. facsim. of holograph ms. dated June 12, 1968]
Subject	Partch, Harry, 1901-1974 -- Manuscripts -- Facsimiles.
	Monologues with music (Vocal duet with instrumental ensemble) -- Scores.
	Vocal duets with instrumental ensemble -- Scores.
	Music -- Manuscripts -- Facsimiles
Added Author	Kassel, Richard.
	Johnston, Ben.
Added Title	Wayward
ISBN	0895794683 (alk. paper)