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The collected essays of Milton Babbitt

Milton Babbitt and Stephen Peles c2003 © Princeton University Press
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  • 9781400841226 (ebook)
  • 9780691155401 (paper)
  • 9780691089669 (hardcover)
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  • Music & Musicology
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page vii)
  • Preface (page ix)
  • The String Quartets of Bartók (1949) (page 1)
  • Review of Leibowitz, Schoenberg et son école 1950 (page 10)
  • Review of Le Système Dodécaphonique (1950) (page 16)
  • Review of Salzer, Structural Hearing (1952) (page 22)
  • Tintinnabulation of the Crochets (Review of Halsey Stevens, The Life and Music of Bartók) (1953) (page 31)
  • Musical America's Several Generations (1954) (page 34)
  • Some Aspects of Twelve-Tone Composition (1955) (page 38)
  • The Composer as Specialist (1958) (page 48)
  • Twelve-Tone Invariants as Compositional Determinants (1960) (page 55)
  • The Revolution in Sound: Electronic Music (1960) (page 70)
  • Past and Present Concepts of Nature and Limits of Music (1961) (page 78)
  • Set Structure as a Compositional Determinant (1961) (page 86)
  • Twelve-Tone Rhythmic Structure and the Electronic Medium (1962) (page 109)
  • Reply to George Perle's "Babbitt, Lewin, and Schoenberg: A Critique" (1963) (page 141)
  • Remarks on the Recent Stravinsky (1964) (page 147)
  • The Synthesis, Perception, and Specification of Musical Time (1964) (page 172)
  • An Introduction to the R.C.A. Synthesizer (1964) (page 178)
  • The Structure and Function of Musical Theory (1965) (page 191)
  • The Use of Computers in Musicological Research (1965) (page 202)
  • Egard Varèse: A Few Observations of His Music (1966) (page 213)
  • Three Essays on Schoenberg (1968) (page 222)
  • On Relata I (1970) (page 237)
  • Contribution to "The Composer in Academia: Reflections on a Theme of Stravinsky" (1970) (page 259)
  • Memorial for Mátyás Seiber (1970) (page 263)
  • Stravinsky Memorial (1971) (page 264)
  • Contemporary Music Composition and Musical Theory as Contemporary Intellectual History (1972) (page 270)
  • Memorial for Stefan Wolpe (1972) (page 308)
  • Since Schoenberg (1974) (page 310)
  • Celebrative Speech for the Schoenberg Centennial (1976) (page 335)
  • Responses: A First Approximation (1976) (page 341)
  • Introduction to Marion Bauer, Twentieth Century Music (1978) (page 367)
  • Foreword to David Epstein, Beyond Orpheus (1979) (page 371)
  • Memorial for Ben Weber (1979) (page 377)
  • Memorial for Robert Miller (1981) (page 380)
  • The More than the Sounds of Music (1984) (page 383)
  • I Remember Roger (1985) (page 388)
  • "All the Things They Are": Comments on Kern (1985) (page 395)
  • Memorial for Hans Keller (1986) (page 399)
  • Stravinsky's Verticals and Schoenberg's Diagonals: A Twist of Fate (1987) (page 404)
  • On Having Been and Still Being an American Composer (1989) (page 428)
  • A Life of Learning (1991) (page 437)
  • Brave New Worlds (1994) (page 459)
  • My Vienna Triangle (1999) (page 466)
  • Index (page 489)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
MAL 86.1 (Feb. 2005): 157-160 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/music_and_letters/v086/86.1simms.html
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