Milton Babbitt
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Milton Byron Babbitt was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher. He was a Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship recipient, recognized for his serial and electronic music. B
Babbitt with the RCA Mark II synthesizer
Twelve-tone technique
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The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition. The technique is a means of ensuring that all 12 notes of th
Milton Babbitt
…Fellowship recipient, recognized for his serial and electronic music. Babbitt's compositional approach was deeply inspired by Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique. He built a compositional system based on permutations of the total chromatic. Babbitt was born on May 10, 1916, in Philadelphia to Albert E. Babbitt…
Arnold Schoenberg, inventor of the twelve-tone technique