An introduction to the music of Milton Babbitt /
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 help...
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Princeton : [Place of publication not identified] :
Princeton University Press ; Princeton Legacy Library,
2014.
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| Item Description: | Print-on-demand reprint of the original book published in 1994. |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Milton Babbitt's compositional world
- Mapping trichordal pathways (1947-1960)
- Expansion and consolidation (1961-1980)
- The grand synthesis (1981-)
- Epilogue.
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue (starting p. 3)
- 1 Milton Babbitt's compositional world
- The twelve-tone system
- Babbitt's pitch structures
- Babbitt's rhythmic structures
- 2 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
- 3 Expansion and consolidation (1961-1980)
- Effects of all-partition arrays
- A brief venture into comparative anatomy
- Two (short) analyses
- 4 The grand synthesis (1981-)
- Superarray structure and projection
- Superarray compositions
- Concerted superarray compositions
- Trichordal arrays and superarrays
- Miniatures, Pièces d'occasion
- New departures
- Epilogue
- Catalog of compositions by Milton Babbitt
- All-partition arrays
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Discography
- Index.