CCCLX. PARTCH, Harry: Ring Around the Moon -- A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now

CCCLX. PARTCH, Harry (1901-1974)

Ring Around the Moon -- A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now (1949)
Phase One -- Well, bless my soul! (Well, bless my soul!) (2:48)
Phase Two -- One, two, three, four -- X, Y, Zee (2:12)
Phase Three -- Shake hands now, boys, and at the sound of the bell come out fighting! (2:55)
Phase Four -- Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoity toity, hotsy totsy, acey ducey, hoochy koochy (Look out! He's got a gun!) (1:31)
Gate 5 Ensemble
Horace Schwartz, cond.

Ring is the second section of a larger work, entitled Plectra and Percussion Dances. Ring itself is a reworking of the Sonata Dementia (see Post XCI).

The instruments:

Adapted Guitar II

Kithara

Harmonic Canon

Chromeloden I

Cloud-Chamber Bowls

Marimba Eroica

Diamond Marimba

Bass Marimba