May 10 - Milton Babbitt (The Musical Birthday Series)

Milton Babbitt (10 May 1916 – 29 January 2011) was an American composer and theorist known for his uncompromising advocacy of advanced serial and electronic techniques.

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Babbitt, as everyone knows,

Used combinatorial rows

To ensure every note

Of each piece that he wrote

Was related to these and to those.