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Milton Babbitt

"I can't believe that people really prefer to go to thehall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something they have missed, when they can sit at home under the most comfortable and stimulating circumstances and hear it as they want to hear it. I can't imagine what would happen to literature today if one were obliged to congregate in an unpleasant hall and read novels projected on a screen." See:Quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, .

— Milton Babbitt people

"Somebody will ask those of us who compose with the aid of computers: 'So you make all these decisions for the computer or the electronic medium but wouldn't you like to have a , of the performer's coordinating capabilities, to the almost infinite limitations of the electronic instrument. The new limitations are the human ones of ." Quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, .

— Milton Babbitt men

"We have all been affected as , as teachers, asbyto an extent that cannot possibly be calculated as yet or predicted for the future. The music which is being most widely disseminated and most widely discussed, and therefore most widely imitated and influential, is that music which is available on records. The music that is only published is very little known. I don't think one can possibly exaggerate the extent to which the climate of music today is determined by the fact that the totalis available on records, that the totalis becoming available." Quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, .

— Milton Babbitt music

"Naturally, since I am not concerned with normative allegations, I cannot be concerned here with the invocation of the overtone series as a 'natural' phenomenon, and that application of equivocation which then would label as 'un-natural' (in the sense, it would appear, of morally perverse) music which is not 'founded' on it. Now, what music, in what sense, ever had been founded on it?"

— Milton Babbitt music

This compositional variety is mediated by a highly redundant set structure, a second-order all-combinatorial set; each set form is hexachordally equivalent to or totally disjunct from fifteen other set forms, so that one-third of all the available set forms belong to a collection of sets which are hexachordally aggregate forming, that is, hexachordally identical.

— Milton Babbitt media

The new limitations are the human ones of perception.

— Milton Babbitt man

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.

— Milton Babbitt music

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