In Popular Culture
- A Beck song called "Harry Partch", a tribute to the composer and his "Corporeal" music, employs Partch's 43-tone scale.
- Evan Dara writes about Partch from the viewpoint of a fictional professor in his novel The Lost Scrapbook
- In his novel The Crack in Space, novelist Philip K. Dick refers to Partch (misspelled as "Parch") as "the great mid-twentieth century composer", and specifically mentions the Spoils of War. Partch's music is described as being "very popular these days with the public" in the future society Dick was portraying.
- John Maus mentions Partch in the song Don't be A Body on his 2006 album Songs.
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