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The Seventeen Lyrics of Li Po - Harry Partch
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  1. The Long Departed Lover
  2. On the City Street
  3. An Encounter in the Field
  4. The Intruder
  5. On Ascending the Sin-Ping Tower
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  1. The Long Departed Lover
  2. On the City Street
  3. An Encounter in the Field
  4. The Intruder
  5. On Ascending the Sin-Ping Tower
  6. In the Springtime on the South Side of the Yangtze Kiang
  7. The Night of Sorrow
  8. On Hearing the Flute in the Yellow Crane House
  9. On Hearing the Flute at Lo-Cheng One Spring Night
  10. A Dream
  11. On Seeing off Meng Hao-Jan
  12. On the Ship of Spice-Wood
  13. With a Man of Leisure
  14. A Midnight Farewell
  15. Before the Casks of Wine
  16. By the Great Wall
  17. I Am a Peach Tree
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Partch based this, one of his earliest extant works, on the texts of the 8th-century Chinese poet Li Po. Written between 1931 and 1933, The Seventeen Lyrics were composed for Intoning Voice and Partch's creation the Adapted Viola, a hybrid consisting of a cello neck grafted onto a viola's body, its open strings tuned one octave below a violin. Performing the work on this 1995 recording are tenor violinist Ted Mook and intoning voice Stephen Kalm. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi

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The Seventeen Lyrics of Li Po 1995, Tzadik Records

UPC: 702397701224

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