“Music For the Masses”: Milton Babbitt's Cold War Music Theory

Along with such images of heroism, exploration, intransigence and insanity, Milton Babbitt has argued for and exemplified a special relationship between music theory and composition. Babbitt's important metatheoretical papers that began to appear in the late 1950s on this subject are discussed.

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Avant garde music
Babbitt, Milton Byron
Composers
Cultural diversity
History
Kitsch
Mass settings
Modernist art
Music composition
Music criticism
Music theory
Musical criticism
Philosophy
Scientific language
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