Milton Babbitt

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Philomel 18:54 Tools
Beaten Paths 04:37 Tools
Homily 03:44 Tools
None But The Lonely Flute 06:10 Tools
Part I 04:39 Tools
Soli E Duettini 10:15 Tools
Part II 04:53 Tools
Play It Again, Sam 06:35 Tools
Whirled Series 15:26 Tools
Melismata 18:35 Tools
Philomel (edit) 04:59 Tools
Three Compositions 07:44 Tools
Composition For Guitar 07:26 Tools
Occasional Variations 09:58 Tools
Post-Partitions 03:52 Tools
String Quartet no.6 25:42 Tools
Semi-Simple Variations 01:15 Tools
String Quartet no.2 13:08 Tools
Ensembles for Synthesizer 01:13 Tools
Composition For Synthesizer 10:55 Tools
Duet (1956) 00:36 Tools
Three Compositions (1947-48) 07:44 Tools
Partitions 01:54 Tools
Semi-Simple Variations (1956) 01:15 Tools
Philomel For Soprano, Recorded Soprano, And Synthesized Sound 18:53 Tools
Reflections 10:22 Tools
Partitions (1957) 01:54 Tools
Philomel (2nd movement) 00:00 Tools
Duet 00:36 Tools
Post-Partitions (1966) 03:52 Tools
Tableaux (1973) 09:35 Tools
Tableaux 09:35 Tools
Philomel (edit), 1964 00:00 Tools
15 - Philomel (edit) 00:00 Tools
Philomel [edit] 05:00 Tools
Reflections (1974) For Piano And Synthesized Tape 10:22 Tools
Canonical Form (1983) 00:00 Tools
Lagniappe (1985) 08:56 Tools
Phonemena 05:02 Tools
Canonical Form 11:29 Tools
Babbit: Philomel 05:00 Tools
Phonemena for soprano and piano 05:02 Tools
Lagniappe 08:56 Tools
Around the Horn: Part I 04:40 Tools
Accompanied Recitative 01:47 Tools
Phonemena For Soprano And Tape 04:59 Tools
The Joy Of More Sextets (1986) 25:33 Tools
Philomel (1964) 04:59 Tools
Philomel, 1964 04:59 Tools
composition for four instruments 12:50 Tools
Fanfare For All 01:43 Tools
Philomel (2nd Movement) - Milton Babbitt 04:48 Tools
Play It Again Sam 18:57 Tools
Vision and Prayer (soprano e sintetizador) 14:43 Tools
Around the Horn: Part II 04:54 Tools
Concerto For Piano And Orchestra (1985) 25:48 Tools
Quatrains 05:09 Tools
Manifold Music 06:45 Tools
Ensembles for Synthesizer (1964) 10:44 Tools
Philomel: Section I 04:43 Tools
Clarinet Quintet: measure 1 04:54 Tools
Arie da Capo 15:53 Tools
Philomel (Edit) (1964) 04:59 Tools
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra 25:48 Tools
My Ends are My Beginnings: II. Section II 05:17 Tools
My Ends are My Beginnings: I. Section I 18:57 Tools
Sextets 16:54 Tools
Paraphrases 13:00 Tools
Phonemena, for soprano and piano 05:02 Tools
String Quartet No. 4 (1970) 18:57 Tools
Sextets (1966) 16:54 Tools
The Head Of The Bed (1982) 23:40 Tools
The Head of the Bed 23:40 Tools
All Set 08:04 Tools
My Ends are My Beginnings: III. Section III 05:25 Tools
It Takes Twelve to Tango 02:32 Tools
Playing for Time 03:07 Tools
Philomel, for soprano, recorded soprano, and synthesized sound 18:52 Tools
Phonemena, for soprano and tape 04:20 Tools
Swan Song No. 1 10:16 Tools
Emblems (Ars Emblematica) 23:40 Tools
Reflections, for piano and synthesized tape 10:16 Tools
Danci 00:00 Tools
Clarinet Quintet: measure 247 23:40 Tools
Clarinet Quintet: measure 80 00:00 Tools
Reflections for piano and synthesized tape 10:18 Tools
Clarinet Quintet: measure 482 23:40 Tools
Vision and Prayer 14:36 Tools
Correspondences 10:15 Tools
String Quartet No. 4 10:15 Tools
String Quartet No. 5 14:36 Tools
Philomel for soprano, recorded soprano and synthesized tape (1964) 18:53 Tools
Preludes, Interludes, and Postlude 04:20 Tools
Post-Partitions for piano (1966) 00:00 Tools
Composition for Viola and Piano 10:29 Tools
Post-Partitions, for Piano 00:00 Tools
Phonemena for soprano and piano (1969) 05:02 Tools
Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet (1995-96), measure 1 05:02 Tools
Tutte le Corde 16:28 Tools
Phonemena for soprano and synthesized tape (1975) 04:20 Tools
Around The Horn 04:20 Tools
Correspondences for String Orchestra and Synthesized Tape (1967) 10:15 Tools
Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet (1995-96), measure 80 05:02 Tools
Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet (1995-96), measure 247 05:02 Tools
Sheer Pluck, "Composition for Guitar" 08:39 Tools
Vision and Prayer - 1961 05:02 Tools
Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet (1995-96), measure 482 05:02 Tools
About Time 12:25 Tools
Concerto Piccolino 03:38 Tools
Canonical Form, for Piano 05:02 Tools
Reflections, for piano & synthesized tape 10:21 Tools
Reflections for piano and synthesized tape (1975) 08:39 Tools
Philomel, Section I 05:02 Tools
Fourplay 16:05 Tools
Three Compositions For Piano, No. I - Milton Babbitt 05:02 Tools
Septet But Equal 26:26 Tools
da Capo 14:27 Tools
Groupwise 16:28 Tools
I, Three Composistion For Piano 16:28 Tools
Phonemena I 05:02 Tools
Minute Waltz (Three-Fourths plus or minus One-Eighth) 01:03 Tools
Around the Horn - Part 1 04:40 Tools
measure 1 03:12 Tools
Quartet No. 3 16:28 Tools
Arie da Capo (1973-74) 10:00 Tools
2nd movement 09:45 Tools
Four Cavalier Settings 01:03 Tools
Around the Horn - Part 2 04:54 Tools
Essay "On Having Been and Still Being an American Composer" 09:45 Tools
Three Compositions For Piano 01:30 Tools
measure 80 06:38 Tools
Piano Concerto 01:26 Tools
String Quartet, No. 2 13:08 Tools
An Elizabethan Sextette; I. When I was Fair & Young 03:12 Tools
Phonemena, for soprano & piano 05:02 Tools
Phonemena, for soprano & tape 04:40 Tools
Paraphrases (1979) 13:08 Tools
Philomel, for soprano & tape 26:26 Tools
Babbitt, Phonemena, for soprano and piano 10:00 Tools
Philomel 1964 10:00 Tools
Three Compositions For Piano, No. 1 01:26 Tools
measure 247 09:45 Tools
Minute Waltz 00:00 Tools
measure 482 09:45 Tools
The Head of the Bed (1981) 23:40 Tools
Phonemena II 04:20 Tools
Relata I 10:00 Tools
A Solo Requiem 22:14 Tools
transfigured notes 10:00 Tools
Around the Horn (1993) - Part II 04:58 Tools
An Elizabethan Sextette; II. Out of Sight, Out of Mind 02:04 Tools
Philomel, Part I 02:04 Tools
Babbitt, Philomel, for soprano, recorded soprano, and synthesized sound 09:45 Tools
Three Cultivated Choruses: Madrigal No. 1 - Amarilli 01:42 Tools
Three Compositions For Piano: I. Quarter-note = 108 01:42 Tools
Clarinet Quintets (Lieb, Phoenix Ensemble, innova 746) 03:04 Tools
Milton Babbitt: Philomel, section I 03:04 Tools
Beaten Paths, for solo marimba (1988) 04:40 Tools
Beaten Path 08:39 Tools
All Set, for jazz ensemble 09:45 Tools
Tableaux, for Piano 00:00 Tools
Philomel (soprano: Bethany Beardslee) 18:53 Tools
String Quartet, No. 6 25:42 Tools
Partitions, for Piano 09:45 Tools
Three Cultivated Choruses: Madrigal No. 2 - Dovro dungue morire 01:17 Tools
On Having Been and Still Being an American Composer 2 18:21 Tools
Babbitt, Post-partitions 18:21 Tools
Babbitt, Reflections, for piano and synthesized tape 01:42 Tools
babbitt ensembles for synthesiz 01:42 Tools
Vision & Prayer 14:34 Tools
Around the Horn (1993) - Part I 04:39 Tools
Four Cavalier Settings, for tenor & guitar (1991) - i To Electra 01:03 Tools
An Elizabethan Sextette; VI. Neopolitan 00:53 Tools
Philomel/2Nd Movement 04:59 Tools
A Gloss on 'round Midnight 04:59 Tools
An Elizabethan Sextette; IV. Can Doleful Notes to Measured Accents Set 01:39 Tools
An Elizabethan Sextette; V. First Love 03:11 Tools
philomel [edit] (1964) 04:59 Tools
Phonemena for soprano & tape (soprano: Lynne Webber) 04:20 Tools
Semi-Simple Variations, for Piano 00:00 Tools
Post-Partitions, For Piano (1966) 25:42 Tools
An Elizabethan Sextette; III. Your Face, Your Tongue, Your Wit 02:22 Tools
Lagniappe, for Piano 03:11 Tools
ensembles for synthesiz 01:17 Tools
Head of the Bed 23:40 Tools
Emblems (Ars Emblematica) (1989) 00:00 Tools
None But The Lonely Flute (1991) 06:13 Tools
Melismata, for solo violin (1982) 18:42 Tools
Sheer Pluck 08:39 Tools
08-Canonical_Form_(1983) 08:39 Tools
11-Paraphrases 08:39 Tools
occasional variations (2) 08:39 Tools
Overtime 08:39 Tools
Three Cultivated Choruses: Madrigal No. 3 - Dovro dungue morire 01:41 Tools
Composition for Four Instruments (1948) 01:41 Tools
Homily, for solo snare drum (1987) 03:49 Tools
Play It Again, Sam, for solo viola (1989) 03:49 Tools
Whirled Series, for alto sax & piano (1987) 15:33 Tools
The Widow's Lament in Springtime 15:33 Tools
05 - post-partitions (1966) 15:33 Tools
Melismata (1982) 18:42 Tools
Allegro penseroso 18:42 Tools
Images 18:42 Tools
Clarinet and String Quartet (1995-96), measure 247 09:45 Tools
Post-partitions (piano: Robert Miller) 03:38 Tools
Philomel, Section I, Track 1 03:38 Tools
02 - duet (1956) 03:38 Tools
Tangled Loops 03:38 Tools
On Having Been and Still Being an American Composer 1 04:01 Tools
Composition for Synthesizer I 04:01 Tools
B2 Vision And Prayer (1961) 04:01 Tools
Babbitt, Phonemena, for soprano and tape 04:01 Tools
Partitions for Piano 04:01 Tools
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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. His influence has been achieved as much through his extensive writings on music as through his music itself. His relative lack of concern with audience appeal is perhaps itself one of the keys to his success, giving him the freedom to experiment. In an article titled "Who Cares If You Listen?" (1958), Babbitt describes the modern-day composer of "new" music as a highly advanced specialist, an ivory-tower figure comparable to a closeted research scientist, who's first responsibility is the advancement of his or her art, and in whom the general music-loving public, quite understandably and properly, has and can have little interest. Born in Philadelphia in 1916, Babbitt studied composition with Marion Bauer and Philip James at New York University (B.A., 1935), and privately with Roger Sessions. When Sessions took a teaching position at Princeton University, Babbitt followed him there. He continued his studies--earning, in 1942, an M.F.A. in music--and himself joined the Princeton faculty in 1938. This began an enduring relationship with Princeton--including a brief stint as a teacher of mathematics during World War II--from which Babbitt finally retired as professor emeritus in 1984. While at Princeton, Babbitt served, from 1959 to 1984, as director of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. He also taught composition at the Juilliard School of Music, beginning in 1973, and gave guest lectures at numerous institutions of higher learning in both the United States and abroad. Babbitt was honored in 1982 with a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for his "life's work as a distinguished and seminal American composer," and in 1986 he was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. He is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which awarded him a Gold Medal in music in 1988. He has served on the editorial board of Perspectives of New Music and been president of the American branch of the International Society of Contemporary Music (ISCM). In 1992 he was awarded a Ph.D. from Princeton for a paper he had written in 1946 concerning Arnold Schoenberg's compositional method. The university had deemed the work unworthy at the time of its writing. Babbitt pursues an interest in American popular music--jazz in particular--and remains active as a composer. Babbitt has been the subject of many articles and books, including An Introduction to the Music of Milton Babbitt, by Andrew Washburn Mead; Milton Babbitt: Words about Music, a compilation of Babbitt's lectures, edited by Stephen Dembski and Joseph N. Straus; and The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt, edited by Stephen Peles, Stephen Dembski, Andrew Mead, and Joseph N. Straus. He died in January 2011.A documentary film dedicated to his biography and music was uploaded here. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.