MILTON BABBITT: A Celebration of his Life and Music
October
31-November 1, 2003
Millsaps College
Jackson, Mississippi
Abstracts
What's Not to Like? An Appreciation of Milton Babbitt's Music and Musical Thought -- Andrew Mead (University of Michigan School of Music)
Babbitt as Author -- Stephen Peles (University of Alabama)
Parametric Counterpoint: Babbittonian Ideals in Composition and Performance -- James Romig (Western Illinois University) and John McMurtery (The Juilliard School)
Precursors to the Formation of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center -- Ralph Hartsock (University of North Texas)
The Rhythm of Resemblances: Structure and Surface in Babbitt's Post-Partitions -- Anthony K. Brandt (Rice University)
Mel Powell and the Evolution of American Modernism -- Jeff Perry (Louisiana State University)
Building on Babbitt: Form in Schoenberg's Fourth Quartet -- David H. Smyth (Louisiana State University)
Milton Babbitt, Bethany Beardslee, and Women's Voices -- Elizabeth Keathley (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
"Serialized" Rhythm, Derived Sets, Combinatoriality, and Invariant Trichords in Webern's Concerto for Nine Instruments, op. 24, III. (sehr rasch) -- Joseph Brumbeloe (University of Southern Mississippi)
New York in the 1930s: a Conversation with Milton Babbitt -- Nancy Rao (Rutgers University)
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