Thinking In and About Music: Analytical Reflections on Milton Babbitt's Music and Thought
Thinking In and About Music: Analytical Reflections on Milton Babbitt's Music and Thought
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0190949236 | 314 Pages | PDF | 13 MB
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0190949236 | 314 Pages | PDF | 13 MB
Milton Babbitt (1916-2011) was, at once, one of the century's foremost composers and a founder of American music theory. These two aspects of his creative life–"thinking in" and "thinking about" music, as he would put it–nourished each other. Theory and analysis inspired fresh compositional ideas, and compositional concerns focused theoretical and analytical inquiry. Accordingly, this book undertakes an excavation of the sources of his theorizing as a guide to analysis of his music.