Alison Maggart
Biographic Data
| ID | 7350283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Maggart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Maggart |
| SIGNATURE | MAGGART A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Literary Echoes in Milton Babbitt’s Music
At his death, Milton Babbitt’s library contained nearly two thousand books, covering a huge array of disciplines and subjects. This literature offers intriguing new contexts for understanding Babbitt’s aesthetics and compositional practice. While scholars have pointed to the influence on his music of analytic philosophy, logic, information theory, and mathematics, I direct attention to the literary, poetic, and linguistic texts and theory that he…
Rethinking Babbitt’s ‘Serious’ Music as Play
Vividly effervescing on the wit and whimsy in Babbitt’s compositions, lovers and listeners of Babbitt’s music often intimate that perception of play is vital for experiential pleasure. Indeed, ludic metaphors permeate the casual discourse on Babbitt’s music. Yet, within the academic literature Babbitt’s ‘play’ is regularly overshadowed by more emphatic pronouncements of his and his music’s ‘seriousness’. This article traces why this has been the …
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Rethinking Babbitt’s ‘Serious’ Music as Play
Vividly effervescing on the wit and whimsy in Babbitt’s compositions, lovers and listeners of Babbitt’s music often intimate that perception of play is vital for experiential pleasure. Indeed, ludic metaphors permeate the casual discourse on Babbitt’s music. Yet, within the academic literature Babbitt’s ‘play’ is regularly overshadowed by more emphatic pronouncements of his and his music’s ‘seriousness’. This article traces why this has been the …
The Literary Echoes in Milton Babbitt’s Music
At his death, Milton Babbitt’s library contained nearly two thousand books, covering a huge array of disciplines and subjects. This literature offers intriguing new contexts for understanding Babbitt’s aesthetics and compositional practice. While scholars have pointed to the influence on his music of analytic philosophy, logic, information theory, and mathematics, I direct attention to the literary, poetic, and linguistic texts and theory that he…
Art (2 works) · Babbitt (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Musical (2 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Allusion (1 work) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work)