An Introduction to the Music of Milton Babbitt.

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Author / Creator:	Mead, Andrew Washburn, author.
Imprint:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (335 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Princeton Legacy Library Princeton legacy library.
Subject:	Babbitt, Milton, -- 1916-2011 -- Criticism and interpretation. Babbitt, Milton, -- 1916-2011. Twelve-tone system. Twelve-tone system. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11275449

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ISBN:	9781400863334 1400863333
Notes:	Cover. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Mead, Andrew. An Introduction to the Music of Milton Babbitt. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014

Table of Contents:

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.

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