Milton Babbitt

American composer

Milton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher. He was a Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship recipient, recognized for his serial and electronic music. Babbitt's compositional approach was deeply inspired by Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique. He built a compositional system based on permutations of the total chromatic.

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  • About Time
  • All Set
  • An Elizabethan Sextette
  • An Elizabethan Sextette: I. "When I Was Fair and Young"
  • An Elizabethan Sextette: II. "Out of Sight, Out of Mind"
  • An Elizabethan Sextette: III. "Your Face, Your Tongue"
  • An Elizabethan Sextette: IV. "Can Doleful Notes to Measured Accents Set"
  • An Elizabethan Sextette: V. "First Love"
  • An Elizabethan Sextette: VI. "Neopolitan"
  • Arie da Capo
  • Around the Horn
  • Beaten Paths
  • Canonical Form
  • Composition for Guitar "Sheer Pluck"
  • Composition for Synthesizer
  • Correspondences
  • Danci
  • Duet for piano
  • Ensembles for Synthesizer
  • Groupwise
  • Homily
  • It Takes Twelve to Tango
  • Lagniappe
  • Manifold Music
  • Melismata
  • Minute Waltz (or) ¾ ± ⅛
  • My Ends Are My Beginnings
  • My Ends Are My Beginnings: Section I
  • My Ends Are My Beginnings: Section II
  • My Ends Are My Beginnings: Section III
  • None but the Lonely Flute
  • Overtime
  • Paraphrases
  • Partitions
  • Philomel: For soprano, taped soprano and synthesizer Vocal
  • Phonemena
  • Piano Concerto no. 1
  • Play it Again, Sam
  • Playing for Time
  • Post-Partitions
  • Quatrains
  • Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet
  • Reflections
  • Relata I
  • Semi-Simple Variations
  • Soli e duettini
  • String Quartet No.2
  • String Quartet no. 3
  • String Quartet no. 4
  • Swan Song no. 1
  • Tableaux
  • The Widow's Lament in Springtime
  • Three Compositions for Piano
  • Vision and Prayer
  • Whirled Series