Editing Harry Partch (section)

===Later life in California (1962–1974)===
Partch set up a studio in late 1962 in [[Petaluma]], California, in a former chick hatchery. There he composed ''And on the Seventh Day, Petals Fell in Petaluma''. He left northern California in summer 1964, and spent his remaining decade in various cities in southern California. He rarely had university work during this period, and lived on grants, commissions, and record sales.{{sfn|McGeary|2000|p=xxii}} A turning point in his popularity was the 1969 [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] LP ''The World of Harry Partch'', the first modern recording of Partch's music and his first release on a major record label.{{sfn|Schell|2017}}

His final theater work was ''[[Delusion of the Fury]]'',{{sfn|McGeary|2000|p=xxii}} which incorporated music from ''Petaluma'',{{sfn|Gilmore|Johnston|2002|p=367}} and was first produced at the [[University of California]] in early 1969. In 1970, the Harry Partch Foundation was founded to handle the expenses and administration of Partch's work. His final completed work was the soundtrack to [[Betty Freeman]]'s ''The Dreamer that Remains''. He retired to San Diego in 1973, where he died after suffering a heart attack on September 3, 1974.{{sfn|McGeary|2000|pp=xxii–xxiii}} The same year, a second edition of ''Genesis of a Music'' was published with extra chapters about work and instruments Partch made since the book's original publication.{{sfn|McGeary|2000|p=xxvi}}

In 1991, Partch's journals from June 1935 to February 1936 were discovered and published—journals that Partch had believed to have been lost or destroyed.{{sfn|McGeary|2000|p=xxii}} In 1998, musicologist [[Bob Gilmore]] published a biography of Partch.