My Ends Are My Beginnings

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"My Ends Are My Beginnings" is a complex, serial composition by American composer Milton Babbitt that exemplifies his highly structured, mathematically oriented approach to contemporary classical music.

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instanceOf musical composition
serial composition
associatedWith American academic serialism
post-war avant-garde music
composedBy Milton Babbitt NERFINISHED
composer Milton Babbitt NERFINISHED
composerNationality American
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
genre contemporary classical music
hasCharacteristic complex
highly structured
mathematically oriented
hasTitleWordplayOn “My end is my beginning”
influencedBy American academic music theory
Arnold Schoenberg’s twelve-tone method
languageOfTitle English
musicStyle post-tonal
notableFor integration of mathematics and musical structure
rigorous formal construction
partOf Milton Babbitt’s oeuvre NERFINISHED
period 20th-century music
titleAlludesTo cyclical musical structure
titleReferences medieval musical canon form
usesTechnique serialism
twelve-tone technique
workType concert music

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Milton Babbitt notableWork My Ends Are My Beginnings