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Also known as Milton Byron Babbitt

American composer (1916–2011)

Person · Open Library

Born
1916
Works
35

Top works

  • The function of set structure in the twelve-tone system
  • A life of learning
  • Three compositions for piano
  • Quatrains
  • Woodwind quartet

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1916-05-10
Active to
2011-01-29

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
18,935
Total plays
85,281

Tags

contemporary classicalexperimentalAvant-GardeClassicalamerican

Composer Milton Babbitt's influence on contemporary music is inestimable. His innovative use of the human voice, his infusions of electronic tape sounds into live performances, his serial compositional techniques and pioneering work in synthesized sound, all broke new ground in the music world. His compositions, with their twelve-tone structures, complex mathematical tonal combinations, and synthetic sounds, offered up with Babbitt's cerebral explanations, evince serious purpose, energy, and wit

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Quotes

  • This compositional variety is mediated by a highly redundant set structure, a second-order all-combinatorial set; each set form is hexachordally equivalent to or totally disjunct from fifteen other set forms, so that one-third of all the available set forms belong to a collection of sets which are hexachordally aggregate forming, that is, hexachordally identical.

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