The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt From: Musical Opinion | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: Matthew-Walker, Robert | Copyright Musical Opinion Limited Mar/Apr 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt Edited by Stephen Peles, with Stephen Dembski, Andrew Mead and Joseph Straus Princeton University Press Oxford University Press 517pp, hardback ISBN 0-691-08966-3 $39.50

At the age of almost 88, the American composer, teacher and musicologist Milton Babbitt is still going strong, and this tome gathers the collected essays of this influential musical thinker. Whether its entire contents truthfully comprise 'essays' is another matter, for not every ...

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