Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Gift, Milton Babbitt and Betty Ann Babbitt Duggan, 2011
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Processing History
Loras John Schissel processed the Milton Babbitt Music Sketches in 2013. Janet McKinney coded a draft finding aid in 2013, and Christopher Hartten updated it in 2021. A second update to the fiding aid was completed in 2022 by Mónica Hurd.
Related Material
The Gunther Schuller Papers contain music manuscripts for several works by Babbitt. The David Lewin Papers contain correspondence with Babbitt and teaching materials about his works and contributions to music theory. Additional correspondence can be found in the David Diamond Papers and Oliver Daniel Papers.
Materials Cataloged Separately
Babbitt's commissioned holograph score for An Encore (2006) is located in the McKim Fund Collection, and his score for String Quartet no. 4 is located in the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection. The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation Collection contains two Babbitt scores for Relata no. 1 (ML30.3e2 no. 1; ML30.3c .B2 no. 1), as well as his score for Septet, but Equal. Additional manuscripts are found in ML96.B13. A small number of scores by other composers and students, received with the collection, are cataloged in the Music Division's general collections. Correspondence recieved with these scores was retained in the collection.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container number], Milton Babbitt Music Sketches, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.