Canon
Where to start with Babbitt
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
VocalPhilomel — For soprano, taped soprano and synthesizer
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Keyboard3 Compositions
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ChamberAccompanied Recitative, serialized composition for soprano saxophone and piano
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OrchestralCorrespondences for String Orchestra and Synthesized Tape
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ChamberAround the horn, for solo horn
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ChamberBeaten Paths, for marimba
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KeyboardCanonical Form
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ChamberClarinet Quintet
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ChamberComposition for Synthesizer
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ChamberComposition for Viola and Piano
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KeyboardDuet
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ChamberEnsembles for Synthesizer
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ChamberHomily, for snare drum
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KeyboardLagniappe
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ChamberMelismata, for violin
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Babbitt's catalogueMost Popular
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Three Compositions for Piano
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Philomelsoprano + tape — Philomela transformed into a nightingale
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All Setjazz ensemble + tape
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Composition for Four Instruments
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Vision and Prayer
Most Acclaimed
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Philomel
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String Quartet No. 2
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Arie da Capo
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Composition for Synthesizer
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A Solo Requiem
Most Weird
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Reflections for Piano and Synthesized Tape
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Around the Score
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Post-Partitions
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Occasional Variationstotal serialism applied to every musical parameter simultaneously — fully abstract
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Transfigured Notes
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 26
- Vocal
- Philomel — For soprano, taped soprano and synthesizer
- Round
- Keyboard
- 3 Compositions
- Canonical Form
- Duet
- Lagniappe
- Partitions
- Post-Partitions
- Reflections, for piano and synthesized tape
- Semi-Simple Variations
- Tableaux
- Chamber
- Accompanied Recitative, serialized composition for soprano saxophone and piano
- Around the horn, for solo horn
- Beaten Paths, for marimba
- Clarinet Quintet
- Composition for Synthesizer
- Composition for Viola and Piano
- Ensembles for Synthesizer
- Homily, for snare drum
- Melismata, for violin
- None but the Lonely Flute, for flute
- Play It Again Sam, for viola
- Sheer Pluck, for solo guitar
- Soli e Duettini, for flute and guitar
- Whirled Series, for saxaphone and piano
- Orchestral
- Correspondences for String Orchestra and Synthesized Tape