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Milton Babbitt : words about music / edited by Stephen Dembski and Joseph N. Straus.

By: Babbitt, Milton, 1916-2011.
Contributor(s): Dembski, Stephen | Straus, Joseph Nathan.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1987Description: ix, 205 p. : music ; 27 cm.ISBN: 0299107906.Subject(s): Music -- 20th century -- CriticismDDC classification: 780.904
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface (p. vii)
  • Chapter 1 The Twelve-Tone Tradition (p. 3)
  • The tradition from which Babbitt's music derives
  • Early interest in Schoenberg and the twelve-tone idea
  • Some common misapprehensions
  • Contextuality and Schoenberg's search for a new communality
  • A question of terminology: set, series, or row
  • Schoenberg's difficulty in completing Jakobsleiter
  • Collection and ordering in tonal and twelve-tone music
  • Schoenberg and Webern
  • Structural function of the series in Composition for Four Instruments and Second Quartet
  • Some reminiscences
  • Chapter 2 Contextual Counterpoint (p. 33)
  • Inversion and index number in Webern, Piano Variations, Opus 27 (second movement)
  • Dallapiccola's gloss on Webern
  • Harmony and counterpoint in Webern, Symphony, Opus 21
  • Some properties of combinatorial hexachords
  • A survey of the six all-combinatorial hexachords
  • How to construct a Schoenbergian hexachord
  • Some comments on retrograde and retrograde-inversion
  • Chapter 3 Large-Scale Harmonic Organization (p. 63)
  • Tracing a contextual path through the first movement of Schoenberg's Fourth Quartet
  • Set structure and set associations in Schoenberg, Opus 33a
  • Long-range preparation and reinforcement in Moses and Aaron
  • Chapter 4 Questions of Partitioning (p. 85)
  • The relationships between trichords and hexachords
  • Various partionings of the aggregate
  • Pitch-class operations applied to total sets
  • About proving the hexachordal theorem
  • All-trichordal and all-interval set
  • Stravinsky's verticals
  • Some aspects of All Set
  • Inferring structural relations from the musical surface
  • Chapter 5 Professional Theorists and Their Influence (p. 121)
  • Professional theorists
  • The Schenker synthesis and a Bach chorale
  • Erpf and the emergence of the contextual point of view
  • Schenker's analysis of a Bach chorale and some additional parallelisms
  • Diminution technique
  • A contextual analysis of the Prelude to Tristan
  • Eccentric but influential theorists
  • Erpf's Kette, Klirrtone, etc.
  • Contextual continuity techniques in Hindemith's Third String Quartet and Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra, Opus 16 and Klavierstucke, Opus 23 No. 3
  • Chapter 6 The Unlikely Survival of Serious Music (p. 163)
  • The intellectual and social reorientation of music in this century as a result of compositional contextuality
  • Schoenberg's search for communality
  • Electronic music and the human ear as the new source of boundary conditions
  • Words about music
  • The composer in academia and the attitude of his fellow academics towards composition
  • The special problems of the American composer
  • Notes (p. 187)
  • Glossary (p. 193)
  • Index (p. 199)