{"id":1851,"date":"2009-11-26T17:19:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T16:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:12:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:12:36","slug":"daphne-of-the-dunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/1851","title":{"rendered":"Daphne of the Dunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Daphne of the Dunes<\/em>, by Harry Partch, is here recorded for the first time live. Originally the sound track for Madeline Tourtelot&#8217;s film <em>Windsong<\/em>, Partch recorded it alone, by the process of overdubbing. The film, a modern rendering of the ancient myth of Daphne and Apollo, is a classic of the integration between visuals and sound. Partch explains his approach to the score:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The music, in effect, is a collage of sounds. The film technique of fairly fast cuts is here translated into musical terms. The sudden shifts represent nature symbols of the film, as used for a dramatic purpose: dead tree, driftwood, falling sand, blowing tumbleweed, flying gulls, wriggling snakes, waving grasses.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Melodic material is short, haunting, and reoccurs motivically. Arpeggiated harmonic texture contrasts melodic sections. Meter is ever changing, almost measure for measure, with pulse sub-divisions of five, seven, and nine common. A trio of the Bass Marimba, Boo. and Diamond Marimba written in 31\/16 meter is structured with 5 unequal beats per measure, the beats sub-divided into sixteenths of 5-5-7-9-5. A duet of the Boo and Harmonic Canon is written in a polymeter of 4\/4-7\/4 over 4\/8-7\/8. &#8211; <em>Notes by Danlee Mitchell<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The instruments heard in this recording:<\/p>\n<p>DAPHNE OF THE DUNES<\/p>\n<p>Adapted Viola<br \/>\nSpoils of War<br \/>\nKithara II<br \/>\nGourd Tree<br \/>\nSurrogate Kithara<br \/>\nDiamond Marimba<br \/>\nHarmonic Canons II and III<br \/>\nBoo (Bamboo Marimba)<br \/>\nChromelodeon I<br \/>\nBass Marimba<br \/>\nCloud-Chamber Bowls<br \/>\nPre-recorded Tape<br \/>\n(Note: No more than four instruments are used simultaneously.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Daphne of the Dunes\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pFvBPQwGpqY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-posts\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daphne of the Dunes, by Harry Partch, is here recorded for the first time live. Originally the sound track for Madeline Tourtelot&#8217;s film Windsong, Partch recorded it alone, by the process of overdubbing. The film, a modern rendering of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/1851\">Continua a leggere<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[646,668],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strumentale-mus","tag-partch","tag-microtonalita"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17733,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions\/17733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}