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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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Autor principal: Mead, Andrew Washburn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments ; Prologue; ONE ; Milton Babbitt's Compositional World; Introduction; The Twelve-Tone System; Babbitt's Pitch Structures; Babbitt's Rhythmic Structures; TWO ; 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; THREE; Expansion and Consolidation (1961-1980); Effects of All-Partition Arrays; A Brief Venture into Comparative Anatomy; Two (Short) Analyses; FOUR ; The Grand Synthesis (1981- ).
  • Superarray Structure and ProjectionSuperarray Compositions; Concerted Superarray Compositions; Trichordal Arrays and Superarrays; Miniatures, Pieces D'Occasion; New Departures; Epilogue; CATALOG OF COMPOSITIONS BY MILTON BABBITT; ALL-PARTITION ARRAYS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; DISCOGRAPHY; INDEX.