The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt
Contributors: Stephen Peles (Editor); Stephen Dembski (Editor); Andrew Mead (Editor); Joseph N. Straus (Editor)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: October 20, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780691089669
Subjects: Theory of music & musicology; History and criticism; Music/Songbooks; Music; Instruction & Study - Composition; Individual Composer & Musician; Instruction & Study - Theory; Music / History & Criticism; History & Criticism - General
First sentence: The recent performance of the String Quartets of Bela Bartok by the Juilliard String Quartet served, by virtue of the stylistic unity of the presentation and the fortuity of nonchronological programming, to emphasize above all the homogeneity and consistent single-mindedness of Bartok's achievement in his works for this medium.