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The maverick composer/musical instrument inventor Harry Partch died in 1974, so he probably wasn't writing liner notes for Ennio Morricone in the eighties.
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John Corigliano was a guest-instructor at my college, and at one point I got him aside and asked which film composers he admired. Morricone was one of them. He also admired Goldsmith (who was the first one he mentioned), as well as John Williams, Leonard Rosenman and Miklos Rozsa.
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I've read a lot about Harry Partch; there are a couple of really good biographies. And I've been listening to his music since high school, when a friend of mine ordered lps from Gate Five Records from Partch himself, who died about a year later. Anyway, I doubt that Partch had ever heard of Morricone. He spoke very, very rarely--if ever--about living composers, and his own musical universe was the 43-tone scale. That's why he built his own instruments. A truly fascinating and--this word is overused--unique composer. Anyone interested, try the large work Delusion of the Fury, or the collection of shorter pieces, The World of Harry Partch. I do get why John Zorn likes Morricone and Partch.
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