Response to "New Music is Academic Music"

“That Schoenberg initialized the academic turn… composers turned their back on the audience, writing music more akin to jargon … Babbitt’s … evidenced a project characterized by the insularity and elitism”

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I do appreciate, at last, the mention of composers in your essays. That said your comments, or perhaps not your comments (you imply that someone else told you this), are sadly, in line with many of the disparages of these composers. Sigh.

Perhaps its ironic that many of the folks who say they reject Babbitt’s approach to composition, fully embrace Babbitt’s prose style to explain their own work.

No sonic prejudice

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