Babbitt: Approach and Aesthetic
Re-invention of Approach and
Aesthetic
- Cologne serialists sought
new approach and aesthetic; all-encompassing
- Babbitt felt results
of the European innovations to be unproven; didn’t want to re-invent basis
of the underlying musical properties
- Babbitt felt no obligation
to derive timbres from his set structure
- Europeans ultimately
abandoned serial procedures, acknowledged perceptual problems; adopted aleatoric
procedures [Stockhausen]