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   Babbitt, Milton
   American composer and theorist known as a leading proponent of total serialism—i.e., musical composition based on prior arrangements not only of all ... [3 related articles]
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   Babbitt, Milton
   Babbitt, Milton, 1916–, American composer, b. Philadelphia. Babbitt turned to music after studying mathematics. He was a composition pupil of Roger Sessions at Princeton. Babbitt has attempted to apply twelve-tone principles to all the elements of composition: dynamics, timbre, and rhythm, as ...
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   Babbitt, Milton
   (Byron) US composer and theorist. A leading proponent of serialism, he pioneered the application of information theory to music in the 1950s, introducing set theory to series manipulations and the term `pitch class` to define every octave identity of a note name. His works include fo...
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