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Thinking in and about music : analytical reflections on Milton Babbitt's music and thought / Zachary Bernstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernstein, Zachary, 1987- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--20th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Babbitt, Milton, 1916-2011--Criticism and interpretation.
- Babbitt, Milton.
- Schenker, Heinrich, 1868-1935--Influence.
- Schenker, Heinrich.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- 'Thinking In and About Music' offers a new look at Milton Babbitt's music, one which brings to bear theories of gesture and embodiment, rhetoric, text setting, and temporality in order to provide a multi-faceted look at one of the twentieth century's most fascinating musical minds.
- Contents:
- On Milton Babbitt, Schenkerian
- Construction, Cognition, and the Role of the Surface
- The Seam in Babbitt's Compositional Development : Composition for Tenor and Six Instruments
- The Surface and the Series in Composition for Four Instruments
- Poetic Form and Psychological Portraiture in Babbitt's Early Texted Works
- Completeness and Temporality
- Babbitt's Gestural Dialectics
- Afterword. "Anything Vital is Problematical".
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-094925-2
- 0-19-094926-0
- 0-19-094924-4
- OCLC:
- 1200831811
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