BABBITT, MILTON

1916–, American composer, b. Philadelphia. Babbitt turned to music after studying mathematics. He was a composition pupil of Roger Sessions at Princeton. Babbitt has attempted to apply twelve-tone principles to all the elements of composition: dynamics, timbre, and rhythm, as well as melody and harmony. He calls this "total serialization" (see serial music). In 1959, Babbitt became one of the directors of the new Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City. His works include Three Compositions for Piano (1947), three string quartets (1942, 1954, 1969–70), Composition for Synthesizer (1961), Philomel (1964) for soprano, taped soprano, and synthesizer, A Solo Requiem for soprano and piano, and Dual (1980) for cello and piano. In 1982 he received a special Pulitzer citation for the body of his work.

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books on: Babbitt Milton  - 1426 results

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Babbitt
Book by Sinclair Lewis; New American Library, 1961
Subjects: Fiction, Lewis, Sinclair--1885-1951--Babbitt
...tation was enhanced by the publication of Babbitt 1922 . Lewis. was awarded a Pulitzer...photograph by MAIN RAY Sinclair Lewis BABBITT With an Afterword by Mark Schorer...Floral Heights. His name was George F. Babbitt. He was forty-six years old now, in...
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Milton Criticism: Selections from Four Centuries
Book by James B. Thorpe; Rinehart, 1950
Subjects: Milton, John--1608-1674--Criticism And Interpretation
MILTON CRITICISM MILTON CRITICISM Selections from Four Centuries E D I T E D B Y...RIGHTS RESERVED PREFACE This book is an invitation to the reading of Milton. It was compiled primarily to provide a convenient collection of criticisms...
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Irving Babbitt: An Intellectual Study
Book by Thomas R. Nevin; University of North Carolina Press, 1984
...his high rating of Dante and Milton suggests. The Johnsonian roar...despair, it was spirited by Babbitts intuited certainty of imminent...when that fashion changed. Babbitts rigid preference for a wisdom...tradition to Sophocles, Dante, and Milton was his somewhat invidious...
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Milton's Literary Milieu
Book by George Wesley Whiting; The University of North Carolina Press, 1939
Subjects: Literature, Comparative--Themes, Motives, Milton, John--1608-1674
MILTONS LITERARY MILIEU Miltons LITERARY MILIEU By GEORGE WESLEY WHITING CHAPEL HILL THE...VIRGINIA PREFACE BECAUSE of the renaissance in the study of Milton, informed readers are discarding the traditional notion that he was...
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Milton's Comus: Family Piece
Book by William B. Hunter Jr.; Whitston Publishing Company, 1983
Subjects: Milton, John--1608-1674--Comus
...Taaffe, "Michaelmas, the Lawless Hour, and the Occasion of Miltons Comus," ELN , 6 1968 , 257-262. 2 For the...Obsolescence of Oracles in Plutarch, Moralia , V, trans. F. A. Babbitt Loeb Classical Library, 1969 , 419E-420A. 6...
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journal articles on: Babbitt Milton  - 20 results

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Necrology: Milton Hindus, 1916-1998
Journal article by Aviva F. Taubenfeld; American Jewish History, Vol. 86, 1998
Subjects: Brandeis University--Officials and employees, College faculty--Behavior, College teachers--Behavior, Hindus, Milton--Behavior, Jews--New York, New York, New York--History
...which he was so dedicated. Milton Hindus was born in New York City...description of the philosopher Irving Babbitt, to whom he devoted his recent...Transaction Publishers, 1986) 2. (3.) Milton Hindus, Irving Babbitt, Literature, and the Democratic...
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The Pastoral after Environmentalism: Nature and Culture in Stephen Albert's Symphony: RiverRun
Journal article by Holly Watkins; Current Musicology, 2007
Subjects: Albert, Stephen--Works, Church music--Influence, Composers--Works, Music criticism--History, Music in churches--Influence, Musical criticism--History, River Run (Musical work)--Criticism and interpretation
...disqualifies it from the realm of "serious music," to use Milton Babbitts phrase, where composers hone the cutting edge of creative...Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. Babbitt, Milton. 1987. Words About Music, edited by Stephen Dembski...
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Michael Cherlin. 2007. Schoenberg's Musical Imagination
Journal article by Gordon Root; Current Musicology, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Schoenberg's Musical Imagination (Book)--Book reviews
...translated by E. B. Ashton. New York: Seabury Press. Babbitt, Milton. 1987. Words About Music, edited by Stephen Dembski...from Words About Music, composer and music theorist Milton Babbitt discusses what he terms the "contextuality" of modernist...
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Muddle or Muddle through? Takings Jurisprudence Meets the Endangered Species Act
Journal article by Mark Sagoff; William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 38, 1997
Subjects: Eminent domain (Law)--Litigation, Endangered Species Act of 1973, Endangered species--Litigation, Regulatory taking (Law)--Litigation
...to the decision of the Supreme Court in Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for...AND INEQUITABLE Writing in dissent in Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for...118) Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt greeted the Courts decision by announcing...
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America's Small Town/Big City Dialectic
Journal article by John A. Jakle; Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol. 18, 1999
Subjects: Cities and towns--Social aspects, Neighborhood--Social aspects, Social interaction--Environmental aspects, Urban anthropology--Social aspects
...The boosters of Zenith--the Babbitts of urban America--saw the city...York: McGraw-Hill. Gordon, Milton M. 1964. Assimilation in American...Harcourt. --. 1922 1980. Babbitt. New York: Signet Classic Harcourt...Mark. 1980. Afterword. In Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis, 320-27...
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magazine articles on: Babbitt Milton  - 21 results

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Music
Magazine article by David Hamilton; The Nation, Vol. 243, July 5, 1986
Subjects: Composers--Criticism and interpretation, Music--Criticism and interpretation, Symphony orchestras--Criticism and interpretation
...embrace Cole Porter, John Cage and Milton Babbitt, as well as younger figures...septuagenarians, George Perle and Milton Babbitt, both enjoying continued productivity...and a substantial selection of Babbitts piano music by Robert Taub (Harmonia...
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PROFESSOR MERZE TATE (1905-1996): A Profile(*)
Magazine article by Joseph E. Harris; Negro History Bulletin, July 1998
Subjects: College teachers--Conduct of life, Tate, Merze--Conduct of life, Western Michigan University--Officials and employees
...Sutherland, a U.S. Navy nurse, who had been alerted by Dr. Adeline Babbitt, a Fulbright professor who had been Professor Tates hostess...Pan-Pacific Branch of the A.A.U.W., at the suggestion of Dr. Babbitt, one of its members. Individually and in groups, members of...
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Sound and Visions
Magazine article by Anna Picard; New Statesman, Vol. 137, March 24, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century (Book)--Book reviews
...of singular intensity", Ross is the anti-Lebrecht. It is not necessary to have a PhD in the mathematical music of Milton Babbitt to enjoy this book. (Ross describes it as "so Byzantine in construction that one practically needed security clearance...
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The Literary Bible
Magazine article by M.D. Aeschliman; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, December 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architect of the Spiritual World (Book)--Book reviews
...been led by T.E. Hulme, Irving Babbitt, P.E. More, Eliot, Ezra Pound...Coleridge, and behind them, Milton as a Christian revolutionary...wanted was the Christianity of Milton, Blake, and Coleridge: a radical...Bible, Plato, Dante, Spenser, Milton, Blake, Coleridge, and Hegel...
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Watch What You Call Welfare
Magazine article by Mickey Kaus; Washington Monthly, Vol. 21, March 1989
Subjects: Social security--Public opinion, The Washington Monthly (Periodical)--Social policy, Welfare recipients--Employment, Workfare programs--Public opinion
...Peterson and Donald Regan endorse it as a deficit-buster. Bruce Babbitt injected it briefly into the 1988 campaign . In Washington...magazines means-test heresy was part of its endorsement of Milton Fried >;mans idea of a guaranteed income ("Abolish Social...
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newspaper articles on: Babbitt Milton  - 6 results

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Obituaries
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), March 22, 2006
...of Eugene, and Sharon Serena and and JoAnne Clemmer, both of Babbitt, Minn.; a son, Ronald Belt of Parkville, Minn.; nine grandchildren...One grandson died previously. Munselle-Rhodes Funeral Home in Milton-Freewater is in charge of arrangements. Memorial contributions...
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A Funny Thing Happened to Stephen Sondheim; with Two Shows Opening in London and Another in New York, the Master of Musicals Ought to Be on a Roll. So Why Is He Troubled?
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 14, 2004
Subjects: Sondheim, Stephen
...geologist." Hammerstein showed him how to write a tight lyric. His other teacher was Milton Babbitt, the crabbiest, most ascetic atonalist in America. "Babbitt taught me what long-line composition is about," he reflects, "how to organise music...
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Today's Best Bets
Newspaper article by Toni Marshall; The Washington Times, April 20, 1996
Subjects: National Parks Conservation Association, Washington, George
...Kevin Jeff; "Raindance," choreographed by Milton Myers; and "Barrelhouse Blues," by Katherine...THE PATH Join Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt today as he completes a 60-mile walk along...Georgetown at 10 a.m. to meet up with Mr. Babbitt at Fletchers Boat House before walking...
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Powell Power
Newspaper article by Jean Battey Lewis; The Washington Times, November 25, 2000
...and theory courses as he could squeeze in. "Id sneak into every composition seminar that came, held by John Cage, Milton Babbitt, David Diamond, Jacob Druckman, Pierre Boulez - all those great artists. I took full advantage of that wonderful...
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Unsettling Scores; Classical Music May Have Improved Crime Statistics on the District Line, but It Could Be a More Effective Deterrent in the Long Term If It Were Taken Seriously in Schools
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 19, 2005
...considered. Nothing to give you a headache - like Mozarts chalk-onslate works for glass harmonica or the gritty scores of Milton Babbitt. Nor is the music to be heard on platforms, where it might annoy lawabiding ticket-holders. This is not, by any...
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encyclopedia articles on: Babbitt Milton  - 5 results

 
 
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Babbitt, Milton
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
BABBITT, MILTON 1916 , American composer, b. Philadelphia. Babbitt turned to music after studying mathematics. He was a composition pupil of Roger Sessions at Princeton. Babbitt has attempted to apply twelve-tone principles to all...
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Ussachevsky, Vladimir
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...working in electronic music in 1951, in collaboration with his former teacher Otto Luening. The two, together with Milton Babbitt and Roger Sessions , became (1959) directors of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City...
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Serial Music
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...pieces include Schoenbergs Piano Suite, Op. 25 (1924) and von Weberns String Quartet, Op. 28 (1938). Pierre Boulez and Milton Babbitt have led efforts toward "total serialization," the application of serial technique to rhythm, dynamics, and timbre...
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Electronic Music
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...in the late 1950s and used extensively by composer Milton Babbitt in many of his electronic works. In the 1950s various...Luening, Vladimir Ussachevsky , Mario Davidovsky, and Babbitt. During the 1960s synthesizers were made widely available...
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Theory
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...theory. Major contemporary theorists are Paul Hindemith, who propounded the idea of non-triadic pitch centrality, and Milton Babbitt , who has published revealing explications of twelve-tone music. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia...


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