An Introduction to the Music of Milton Babbitt.

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Mead, Andrew Washburn [author.]

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TextSeries: Princeton legacy libraryPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (335 pages)Content type:

text

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9781400863334
1400863333

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Acknowledgments ; Prologue; ONE ; Milton Babbitt's Compositional World; Introduction; The Twelve-Tone System; Babbitt's Pitch Structures; Babbitt's Rhythmic Structures; TWO ; Mapping Trichordal Pathways (1947-1960); A Wellspring of Possibilities: The Composition for Four Instruments; Realizing the Implications of the Composition for Four Instruments; Additional Compositional Strategies; THREE; Expansion and Consolidation (1961-1980); Effects of All-Partition Arrays; A Brief Venture into Comparative Anatomy; Two (Short) Analyses; FOUR ; The Grand Synthesis (1981- ).

Superarray Structure and ProjectionSuperarray Compositions; Concerted Superarray Compositions; Trichordal Arrays and Superarrays; Miniatures, Pieces D'Occasion; New Departures; Epilogue; CATALOG OF COMPOSITIONS BY MILTON BABBITT; ALL-PARTITION ARRAYS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; DISCOGRAPHY; INDEX.

Summary: In this celebration of Milton Babbitt's art, Andrew Mead explores the development of a central figure in contemporary American music. As a teacher and writer, Babbitt has influenced two generations of students, including such notable musicians as Stephen Sondheim and Donald Martino. He has helped establish the study of music theory as a serious academic pursuit, and his articles on Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and the twelve-tone system constitute a seminal body of research. But Babbitt is first and last a composer, whose works are, in Mead's words, ""truly music to be heard."" With Mead as a gu.

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In this celebration of Milton Babbitt's art, Andrew Mead explores the development of a central figure in contemporary American music. As a teacher and writer, Babbitt has influenced two generations of students, including such notable musicians as Stephen Sondheim and Donald Martino. He has helped establish the study of music theory as a serious academic pursuit, and his articles on Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and the twelve-tone system constitute a seminal body of research. But Babbitt is first and last a composer, whose works are, in Mead's words, ""truly music to be heard."" With Mead as a gu.

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