Babbitt basically developed integral serialism (independently of the Darmstadt school) and made his life's work out of it. His music is very pattern oriented and for each piece he worked out serialisations of pitch, rhythm, timbre etc. with a view to creating a dense "parametric counterpoint" (my term, not his). He declared himself a "maximalist" in opposition to the minimalism which became popular in the 1970s, and his music bears this description out.
It's true that he was extremely methodical, meticulous, mathematical etc., and that his pieces do not offer themselves up easily to the audience. What is often missed, however, partly because of preconceptions about serialism as being merely of academic interest, but also because his music is very difficult to perform, is his sense of humour.
He was a great admirer of the American popular song form, Tin Pan Alley etc., and quite a few of his pieces have veiled references or even outright quotations. He was also very familiar with jazz, and played clarinet and saxophone in various jazz groups as a young man. He was also an important teacher, and taught composition to Stephen Sondheim, Stanley Jordan, and Frederic Rzewski.
Recommended works: All Set Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet Occasional Variations Philomel Piano Concerto
Michael Torres
Awful
Josiah Johnson
Can anyone recognize the painting?
Jose Young
forgot pic
Henry Johnson
Would /classical/ tell me what do they think about a """"composition"""" I've made today or are we too elitist for such pleb stuff?
Connor Sanders
Too elitist for such pleb stuff
Brody Collins
Okay...
William Hall
Do you have a composition teacher? If not get one. I've never ever heard anyone solicit advice from strangers over the internet on any free platform about their compositions without it being utter shite. That being said don't really bother with the advice we can give you. You need a teacher to critique your stuff and to set down exercises and give you texts to read. If you think asking Sup Forums is a good thing to do about your composition then you are obviously at a level where that is needed.
Bentley Robinson
What the hell are you doing?
Luis Howard
Give me some good youtube channels pls I've suscribed to Ispirazione Barocca (love that channel), cantate domino, Chaconne Passacaille and kirill
Looking for some channel like Barocca but about romantic music
Brody Anderson
Musicanth is a good channel.
Tyler Young
Dancers in the Wings at the Opera by Jean-Louis Forain
