Edited transcriptions of a series of lectures by Milton Babbitt on 20th-century music delivered in Nov. 1983 at the UW-Madison School of Music.
Typescript (photocopy); contains some pre-editorial differences from book.
Title from label on spine of loose-leaf binder.
Published as: Milton Babbitt : words about music / edited by Stephen Dembski and Joseph N. Straus (Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1987).
Forms part of: Wisconsin Music Archives.
Includes bibliographical references.
Chapter 1. The twelve-tone tradition -- Chapter 2. Contextual counterpoint -- Chapter 3. Large-scale harmonic organization -- Chapter 4. Questions of partitioning -- Chapter 5. Professional theorists and their influence -- Chapter 6. The unlikely survival of serious music