Harry Partch - note on files



     For this bibliography the most important resource was Thomas B.

McGeary's work entitled The Music of Harry Partch; a descriptive catalog,

Brooklyn: Institute for Studies in American Music, 1991.  McGeary has

worked with Ben Johnston for the past several years in completing such

bibliographical and biographical studies.  This work has been published

along side a collection of Partch's writings, edited by McGeary entitled

Bitter Music, Urbanna IL: University of Illinois Press, 1991. Due to the

work of the scholar (McGeary) and the composer (Johnston), there has been a

surge of activety concerning Partch in recent years.  The most notable have

been two new rereleases of previous recordings on CD, and the recent

release of a live performance of Revelation in the Courthouse Park, from

the 1987 American Festival of Contemporary music.



     In addition the following sources were used heavily: The Music Index,

RILM, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, and the Index to Biographies of American

Composers.



Of great help was the Index to Biographies of American Composers. This list

includes all major resource books which I could locate.



PARCMP came from McGeary and Amerigrove. The list is complete. There are

several smaller works which later became part of larger compositions.  When

this occurred, I listed the work and all of its revisions only under

the title of the larger composition.  Since none of the works are, to my

knowledge, published, the dates listed stand for the copyright dates.  In

most cases, the pieces are listed with their instrumentation.  Since the

cast of characters for dramatic works was also listed in PARDISC, There

were not listed here.



PARWRI is not extensive, due to the fact that most of Partch's writings

are contained in only two books - Genesis and Bitter Music.



PARDIS is also not extensive, but I believe there will be an increase in

scholarship on Partch due to the recent work of McGeary and Johnston.



PARDSC is also from McGeary.  This list is very complete with listings of

personnel and reissues.



PARARL is a culmination of compilations from the above mentioned sources.

Those before 1974 come from McGeary, those after come from the others.



PARNSP - culled from ARL



The bibliography of writings about Partch in McGeary is extremely

comprehensive.  It contains detailed articles which appeared in various

newspapers.  These were collected in order to compile an oral history for

Partch.  I included them in this file.  Although not necessarily scholarly

in nature, this type of information is extremely useful in researching

events in Partch's life, especially his early career.



This Bibliography is very near completion.  As is usually the case, however,

it is very possible that when I get into the research a bit deeper, I may

discover some additional sources. I have a hunch that there has been more

published in the past year, than I have been able to locate as of yet.



JB 4/92