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Harry Partch

1901 - 1974

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Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales, alongside Lou Harrison. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Partch has received more than 524,031 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Harry Partch is the 1,018th most popular composer (down from 913th in 2019), the 5,245th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,657th in 2019) and the 56th most popular American Composer.

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  • 520k

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  • 48.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Harry Partch ranks 1,018 out of 1,216. Before him are Vagn Holmboe, Jacopo da Bologna, Michael William Balfe, Ivan Galamian, Frank Churchill, and Martin Wegelius. After him are Arif Malikov, Adolf Bernhard Marx, Napoléon Henri Reber, Siegmund von Hausegger, Artur Kapp, and Philippe Verdelot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Harry Partch ranks 186. Before him are Mária Mednyánszky, Jean Mermoz, Enrique Santos Discépolo, Ed Begley, Frank Churchill, and André Parrot. After him are Konstantinos Kollias, Ugo Frigerio, Cyril of Bulgaria, Roy Urquhart, Reinhold Mack, and Aurora Mardiganian. Among people deceased in 1974, Harry Partch ranks 139. Before him are Georgette Heyer, Werner Kohlmeyer, Egon Wellesz, Ned Maddrell, Kajirō Yamamoto, and Fritz Szepan. After him are Adolph Gottlieb, Lily Kronberger, Françoise Rosay, Edward Platt, George Van Biesbroeck, and Alfred Keller.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harry Partch ranks 5,245 out of 18,182. Before him are Joe Manchin (1947), Juan Trippe (1899), Jeane Dixon (1904), Emily Kinney (1985), Robert Urich (1946), and Janet Margolin (1943). After him are Joan Blondell (1906), Mona Simpson (1957), Beah Richards (1920), Richard Estes (1932), Alan Lomax (1915), and Ginger Lynn (1962).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Harry Partch ranks 56. Before him are Cathy Berberian (1925), W. C. Handy (1873), Marvin Hamlisch (1944), Meredith Monk (1942), Walter Piston (1894), and Frank Churchill (1901). After him are Michael Giacchino (1967), Morton Gould (1913), Roger Sessions (1896), William Christie (1944), Peter H. Gilmore (1958), and Carter Burwell (1954).

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