Enclosure II

Don Thompson



  • 1I am Harry Partch
  • 2By the Rivers of Babylon
  • 3Texts and Music: A Wagnerian Wrestling Match
  • 417 Lyrics of Li Po: A Dream
  • 517 Lyrics of Li Po: An Encounter in the Field
  • 617 Lyrics of Li Po: On Hearing the Flute
  • 717 Lyrics of Li Po: The Intruder
  • 817 Lyrics of Li Po: I am a Peach Tree
  • 917 Lyrics of Li Po: With a Man of Leisure
  • 1017 Lyrics of Li Po: A Midnight Farewell
  • 1117 Lyrics of Li Po: Before the Cask of Wine
  • 1217 Lyrics of Li Po: On the Ship of Spicewood
  • 1317 Lyrics of Li Po: By the Great Wall
  • 14The Use of English in Serious Music
  • 15Barstow: 8 Hitchhikers' Inscriptions
  • 16San Francisco: a Setting of the Cries of Two Newsboys on a Foggy Night in the Twenties
  • 17Life Is Too Precious to Spend It With Important People
  • 18US Highball: a Musical Account of a Transcontinental Hobo Trip
  • 19My Heart Keeps Beating Time
  • 20San Francisco II
  • 1I'm Going to Start Right Off By Giving You Some Sounds…
  • 22 Settings from Finnegans Wake: No. 1. Isobel
  • 32 Settings from Finnegans Wake: No. 2. Annah the Allmaziful
  • 4Dark Brother
  • 5A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Prelude to Talk
  • 6A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Introduction to Examples Oo Intonation
  • 7A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Scale of Olympos (Pentatonic)
  • 8A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Enharmonic Scale of Archytas; Separated by 3/2's; Triads
  • 9A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Scale of Pythagoras; Separated by 3/2's; Triads
  • 10A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Ptolemaic Intense Diatonic; Separated by 3/2's; Triads
  • 11A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Ptolemy's Equable Diatonic; Separated by 3/2's
  • 12A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Terpander's Hexatonic
  • 13A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Close Degrees
  • 14A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: True and Tempered Triads
  • 15A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Resolutions from p. 186 of Genesis of a Music; Resolution p. 187; "Familiar" Resolution
  • 16A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Fox-Strangeways Resolutions
  • 17A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Tonal Flux from Genesis, p. 188; Tonal Flux from The Letter and Third Chorus of Oedipus; Another p. 188; Tonal Flux from Antiphony of Oedipus, "O Crowding W
  • 18A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Multiple Tonal Senses from Antiphony of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…"
  • 19A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Multiple Tonal Senses from Dark Brother, "and we who were lost are found again…"
  • 20A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Melodic Subtleties from The Street, "Down Maxwell Street, where the prostitutes stand in the gloom…", U.S. Highball, "Back to the freights for you, boy."
  • 21A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Melodic Subtleties from The Bewitched
  • 22A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Instrumental Tunings: Harmonic Canon I as in Revelation; Petals; Chromelodeon two sets of reeds; Revelation
  • 23A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Dissonances and Consonance: Coda to Oedipus; Coda to Revelation
  • 1Bitter Music: June 11, 1935 — Santa Rosa, California
  • 2Bitter Music: June 12 — Federal Shelter, Stockton
  • 3Bitter Music: June 13
  • 4Bitter Music: June 14
  • 5Bitter Music: June 16 — Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta
  • 6Bitter Music: June 17
  • 7Bitter Music: July 4
  • 8Bitter Music: July 14
  • 9Bitter Music: July 16
  • 10Bitter Music: July 19
  • 11Bitter Music: July 20 — Heading North, Between Sacramento and Redding
  • 12Bitter Music: July 24 — Federal Shelter, Portland
  • 13Bitter Music: July 25 — Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington
  • 14Bitter Music: July 27
  • 15Bitter Music: July 29
  • 16Bitter Music: July 30
  • 17Bitter Music: August 7 — Between Grants Pass and Klamath Falls, Oregon
  • 18Bitter Music: August 15
  • 19Bitter Music: October 22 — Nearing Monterey
  • 20Bitter Music: October 24 — Leaving Big Sur
  • 21Bitter Music: October 25 — Near Slate's Hot Springs
  • 22Bitter Music: October 26
  • 23Bitter Music: October 27
  • 24Bitter Music: October 28
  • 25Bitter Music: October 29
  • 26Bitter Music: October 30 — Big Creek
  • 27Bitter Music: November 12 — Santa Barbara
  • 28Bitter Music: November 14
  • 29Bitter Music: November 15 — Leaving Santa Barbara
  • 30Bitter Music: November 16 — Ojai
  • 31Bitter Music: November 17
  • 32Bitter Music: November 23 — Los Angeles
  • 33Bitter Music: November 28
  • 34Bitter Music: December 4
  • 35Bitter Music: December, 1935
  • 36Bitter Music: February 1, 1936 — San Bernardino
  • 1Yankee Doodle Birds
  • 2Yankee Doodle Fantasy
  • 32 Settings from Lewis Carroll: O Frabjous Day!
  • 4You are charged with being guilty. Are you drunk or not?
  • 5Ring Around the Moon, a Dance Fantasm for Here and Now
  • 6Bless This Home
  • 7Harrys Wake
    • 2000 Innova