Harry Partch - Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales (1946, revised 1950)

Dean Drummond, harmonic canon Jared Soldiviero, bass marimba Performed on Partch's original instruments. March 2011 rehearsal at the Harry Partch Institute, Montclair State University. Chuck and Nina are doing instrument maintenance in the background ;) Harry Partch invented and built his own instruments in order to compose music in just intonation. He created a scale of 43 tones per octave derived naturally from the overtone series beginning on the tone 'G'. While these studies use a relatively small amo