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Milton Babbitt

American composer
Also known as: Milton Byron Babbitt
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Milton Babbitt (born May 10, 1916, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.ā€”died January 29, 2011, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American composer and theorist known as a leading proponent of total serialismā€”i.e., musical composition based on prior arrangements not only of all 12 pitches of the chromatic scale (as in 12-tone music) but also of dynamics, duration, timbre (tone colour), and register. Babbitt attended public schools in Jackson, Mississippi; he played violin as a young child and then...

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