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1916–2011 United States

Milton Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer. He is particularly noted for his pioneering serial and electronic music.

United States
Composers

Also known as: Babbitt, Milton

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This compositional variety is mediated by a highly redundant set structure, a second-order all-combinatorial set; each set form is hexachordally equivalent to or totally disjunct from fifteen other set forms, so that one-third of all the available set forms belong to a collection of sets which are hexachordally aggregate forming, that is, hexachordally identical.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Milton Babbitt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.