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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- Total plays
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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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