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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Babbitt
Book by Sinclair Lewis; New American Library, 1961
Subjects: Fiction, Lewis, Sinclair--1885-1951--Babbitt
...you ever stay home?" from Babbitt. In the living-room, in...this old-fashioned junk by Milton and Shakespeare and Wordsworth...they get that way?" Mrs. Babbitt, darning socks, speculated...they werent at all nice." Babbitt looked up irritably from the...
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Irving Babbitt: An Intellectual Study
Book by Thomas R. Nevin; University of North Carolina Press, 1984
...reference to what he, following Milton, called right reason. Babbitt subsumed Arnolds term in his...peculiar to English character; Babbitt, the more partisan, for a...abstract intellectual polarities, Babbitt exaggerated in the manner of...
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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
...rejoice in the result. For Milton freed from the perversities...is surely an ally. The true Milton is subject to no one of the...fierce indictment which Mr. Babbitt, and Mr. More, and Mr...authentic humanistic formula which Milton applies in all the domains...
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Criticism in America, Its Functions and Status: Essays
Book by Irving Babbitt, Van Wyck Brooks, W. C. Brownell, Ernest Boyd, H. L. Mencken, Stuart P. Sherman, J. E. Spingarn, George F. Woodberry; Harcourt, Brace, 1924
Subjects: Criticism--United States
...Xschylus and Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe, Milton and Racine, and all their high compeers...problems. It explains, for example, how Milton the moralist started out to make Satan a demon and how Milton the poet ended by making him a hero; and...
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Rousseau and Romanticism
Book by Irving Babbitt; Houghton Mifflin, 1919
Subjects: Fiction, Romanticism, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques--1712-1778--Influence
...When one wishes therefore to determine the nature of decorum one should think of a Milton, let us say, and not of a Talleyrand or even of a Chesterfield. Milton imitated the models, like any other neo-classicist, but his imitation was not...
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journal articles on: Babbitt Milton  - 38 results

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New Issues in the Analysis of Webern's 12-tone Music1
Journal article by Catherine Nolan; Canadian University Music Review, Vol. 9, 1988
Subjects: Babbitt, Milton Byron, Classical music, Composers, Musical criticism, Musicology, Webern, Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von (1883-1945)
...already over twenty years old. Milton Babbitt, the principal pioneer of this...transformations of a twelve-tone row. As Babbitt pointed out, the focus of this...mathematical group in the United States (Babbitt 1955). On both sides of the Atlantic...
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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
...Sparrow Press, 1988) 9. (2.) Milton Hindus, Celine: The Crippled...Publishers, 1986) 2. (3.) Milton Hindus, Irving Babbitt, Literature, and the Democratic...Publishers, 1994) 18. (4.) Milton Hindus, introduction, By the...
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Books Recently Published
Journal article by Julia Graepel, Karen R. Little; Music Library Association. Notes, Vol. 62, 2005
...Gaithersburg, MD: Ravening Wolf Pub. Co., 2004. 544 p. ISBN 0974488216. LC 2005-270310. Babbitt, Milton. The collected essays of Milton Babbitt. Ed. by Stephen Peles, et al. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. xi, 517...
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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...Words About Music, composer and music theorist Milton Babbitt discusses what he terms the "contextuality" of modernist...
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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
...realm of "serious music," to use Milton Babbitts phrase, where composers...cutting edge of creative techniques (Babbitt 1987). As Dyer observed, "it is...University of Minnesota Press. Babbitt, Milton. 1987. Words About Music, edited...
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Uneasy Evaluatives: Perspectives on Babbitt
Magazine article by Arnold Whittall; Musical Times, Vol. 145, Summer 2004
Subjects: Babbitt, Milton Byron, Composers, Essays, Music
...Babbitt The collected essays of Milton Babbitt Edited by Stephen Peles with Stephen...generation - one could mention Milton Babbitt and Conlon Nancarrow, close contemporaries...his Introduction to the music of Milton Babbitt- Make no bones about it. I enjoy...
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The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt
Magazine article by Robert Matthew-Walker; Musical Opinion, Vol. 127, March 2004
The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt by Robert Matthew-Walker The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt Edited by Stephen Peles, with...composer, teacher and musicologist Milton Babbitt is still going strong, and this...
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Milton Babbitt: Songs and Instrumental Music
Magazine article by Robert Matthew-Walker; Musical Opinion, Vol. 127, March 2004
Milton Babbitt: Songs and Instrumental Music by Robert Matthew-Walker MILTON BABBITT: Songs and Instrumental Music Cygnus Ensemble Jeffrey Milarsky: Conductor...
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Pipings
Magazine article; The American Organist, Vol. 45, April 2011
...Thejoyofmusic. org. OBITUARIES Milton (Byron) Babbitt, 94 years old, January 29...fellowship of $300,000 in 1986. Babbitt was known for a sense of humor...Press as The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt in 2003. Among his students...
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News & Notes
Magazine article by Rick Pender; The Sondheim Review, Vol. 17, Summer 2011
...An early influence. Milton Babbitt, the noted American...earned a production. Babbitt served as Stephen Sondheims...disdain theatre music. Milton, who was a frustrated...It didnt hurt that Babbitt, like Sondheim, was...
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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...
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For Pianist, Software Is Replacing Sonatas
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 25, 2010
Subjects: Musicians, Software
...a brainstorm that explains why Taub - who made his reputation playing two distinctly different Bs, Beethoven and Milton Babbitt - has put his performing on hold, and why "software entrepreneur" now tops his resume. "I thought, wouldnt it...
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SONDHEIM SEASON; at 80, Stephen Sondheim Is More Popular Than Ever, with New Productions of Two of His Musicals, Concerts That Sold out in Hours and a Prom on Saturday. So Why Are We So Passionate about Him, Asks Petroc Trelawny
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 27, 2010
Subjects: Sondheim, Stephen
...Sondheims musical influences are catholic; Leonard Bernstein, with whom he collaborated on West Side Story; Milton Babbitt, the avant-garde New York composer who taught him; Maurice Ravel, the French composer whose music he adores...
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Guest to Sing with UO Ensemble
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), April 8, 2010
Subjects: Concerts, Singers
...and other contemporary selections at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Beall Concert Hall. The program includes "Philomel" by Milton Babbitt; "96" and "Mollitude" by Frederic Rzewski; "Echolalia" by Mark Applebaum; "Sequenza III" by Luciano Berio...
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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
...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...
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encyclopedia articles on: Babbitt Milton  - 5 results

 
 
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Babbitt, Milton
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...
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Electronic Music
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...developed 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, 2009
...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. ____________________ Copyright...
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Ussachevsky, Vladimir
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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, 2009
...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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