Editing Milton Babbitt (section)

==List of compositions==
===First period===
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*1935 ''Generatrix'' for orchestra (unfinished)
*1939–41 String Trio
*1940 ''Composition for String Orchestra'' (unfinished)
*1941 Symphony (unfinished)
*1941 ''Music for the Mass I'' for mixed chorus
*1942 ''Music for the Mass II'' for mixed chorus
*1946 ''Fabulous Voyage'' (musical, libretto by Richard Koch)
*1946 ''Three Theatrical Songs'' for voice and piano (taken from Fabulous Voyage)
*1947 ''Three Compositions for Piano''
*1948 ''[[Composition for Four Instruments]]''
*1948 String Quartet No. 1 (withdrawn)
*1948 ''[[Composition for Twelve Instruments]]''
*1949 ''Into the Good Ground'' film music (withdrawn)
*1950 ''Composition for Viola and Piano''
*1951 ''The Widow's Lament in Springtime'' for soprano and piano
*1951 ''Du'' for soprano and piano, [[August Stramm]]
*1953 Woodwind Quartet
*1954 [[String Quartet No. 2 (Babbitt)|String Quartet No. 2]]
*1954 ''Vision and Prayer'' for soprano and piano (unpublished, unperformed)
*1955 ''Two Sonnets'' for baritone, clarinet, viola, and cello, two poems of [[Gerard Manley Hopkins]]
*1956 Duet for piano
*1956 ''Semi-Simple Variations'' for piano
*1957 ''[[All Set (Babbitt)|All Set]]'' for jazz ensemble (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, trumpet, trombone, contrabass, piano, vibraphone, and percussion){{sfn|Anon. n.d.(a)}}
*1957 ''Partitions'' for piano
*1960 ''Composition for Tenor and Six Instruments''
*1960 ''Sounds and Words'' for soprano and piano
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===Second period===
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*1961 ''Composition for Synthesizer''
*1961 ''Vision and Prayer'' for soprano and synthesized tape, setting of a poem by [[Dylan Thomas]]
*1964 ''[[Milton Babbitt's Philomel|Philomel]]'' for soprano, recorded soprano, synthesized tape, setting of a poem by [[John Hollander]]
*1964 ''Ensembles for Synthesizer''
*1965 ''Relata I'' for orchestra
*1966 ''Post-Partitions'' for piano
*1966 ''Sextets'' for violin and piano
*1966 ''Play on Notes'' for bells and voice
*1967 ''[[Correspondences (Babbitt)|Correspondences]]'' for string orchestra and synthesized tape
*1968 ''Relata II'' for orchestra
*1968–69 ''Four Canons'' for SA
*1969 ''Phonemena'' for soprano and piano
*1970 [[String Quartet No. 3 (Babbitt)|String Quartet No. 3]]
*1970 [[String Quartet No. 4 (Babbitt)|String Quartet No. 4]]
*1968–71 ''Occasional Variations'' for synthesized tape
*1972 ''Tableaux'' for piano
*1974 ''Arie da capo'' for five instrumentalists
*1975 ''Reflections'' for piano and synthesized tape
*1975 ''Phonemena'' for soprano and synthesized tape
*1976 Concerti for violin, small orchestra, synthesized tape
*1976 ''A Birthday Double Canon'' for SATB
*1977 ''A Solo Requiem'' for soprano and two pianos
*1977 ''Minute Waltz (or 3/4 ± 1/8)'' for piano
*1977 ''Playing for Time'' for piano
*1978 ''My Ends Are My Beginnings'' for solo clarinet
*1978 ''My Complements to Roger'' for piano
*1978 ''More Phonemena'' for twelve-part chorus
*1978 ''Eppesithalamium'' for solo cello
*1979 ''An Elizabethan Sextette'' for six-part women's chorus
*1979 ''Images'' for saxophonist and synthesized tape
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===Third period===
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*1979 ''Paraphrases'' for ten instrumentalists
*1980 ''Dual'' for cello and piano
*1981 ''Ars Combinatoria'' for small orchestra
*1981 ''Don'' for four-hand piano
*1982 ''The Head of the Bed'' for soprano and four instruments
*1982 [[String Quartet No. 5 (Babbitt)|String Quartet No. 5]]
*1982 ''Melismata'' for solo violin
*1982 ''About Time'' for piano
*1983 ''Canonical Form'' for piano
*1983 ''Groupwise'' for flautist and four instruments
*1984 ''Four Play'' for four players
*1984 ''It Takes Twelve to Tango'' for piano
*1984 ''Sheer Pluck'' (composition for guitar)
*1985 Concerto for piano and orchestra
*1985 ''Lagniappe'' for piano
*1986 ''Transfigured Notes'' for string orchestra
*1986 ''The Joy of More Sextets'' for piano and violin
*1987 ''Three Cultivated Choruses'' for four-part chorus
*1987 ''Fanfare'' for double brass sextet
*1987 ''Overtime'' for piano
*1987 ''Souper'' for speaker and ensemble
*1987 ''Homily'' for snare drum
*1987 ''Whirled Series'' for saxophone and piano
*1988 ''In His Own Words'' for speaker and piano
*1988 ''The Virginal Book'' for contralto and piano, setting of a poem by [[John Hollander]]
*1988 ''Beaten Paths'' for solo marimba
*1988 ''Glosses for Boys' Choir''
*1988 ''The Crowded Air'' for eleven instruments
*1989 ''Consortini'' for five players
*1989 ''Play It Again, Sam'' for solo viola
*1989 ''Emblems (Ars Emblematica)'', for piano
*1989 ''Soli e duettini'' for two guitars
*1989 ''Soli e duettini'' for flute and guitar
*1990 ''Soli e duettini'' for violin and viola
*1990 ''Envoi'' for four hands, piano
*1991 ''Preludes, Interludes, and Postlude'' for piano
*1991 ''Four Cavalier Settings'' for tenor and guitar
*1991 ''Mehr "Du"'' for soprano, viola and piano
*1991 ''None but the Lonely Flute'' for solo flute
*1992 ''Septet, But Equal''
*1992 ''Counterparts'' for brass quintet
*1993 ''Around the Horn'' for solo horn
*1993 ''Quatrains'' for soprano and two clarinets
*1993 ''Fanfare for All'' for brass quintet
*1993 [[String Quartet No. 6 (Babbitt)|String Quartet No. 6]]
*1994 ''Triad'' for viola, clarinet, and piano
*1994 ''No Longer Very Clear'' for soprano and four instruments, setting of a poem by [[John Ashbery]]
*1994 ''Tutte le corde'' for piano
*1994 ''Arrivals and Departures'' for two violins
*1994 ''Accompanied Recitative'' for soprano sax and piano
*1995 ''Manifold Music'' for organ
*1995 ''Bicenquinquagenary Fanfare'' for brass quintet
*1995 Quartet for piano and string trio
*1996 Quintet for clarinet and string quartet
*1996 ''Danci'' for solo guitar
*1996 ''When Shall We Three Meet Again?'' for flute, clarinet and vibraphone
*1998 Piano Concerto No. 2
*1998 ''The Old Order Changeth'' for piano
*1999 ''Composition for One Instrument'' for celesta
*1999 ''Allegro Penseroso'' for piano
*1999 ''Concerto Piccolino'' for vibraphone
*2000 ''Little Goes a Long Way'' for violin and piano
*2000 ''Pantuns'' for soprano and piano
*2001 ''A Lifetime or So'' for tenor and piano
*2002 ''From the Psalter'' soprano and string orchestra
*2002 ''Now Evening after Evening'' for soprano and piano, setting of a poem by [[Derek Walcott]]
*2002 ''A Gloss on 'Round Midnight'' for piano
*2003 ''Swan Song No. 1'' for flute, oboe, violin, cello, mandolin (or guitar), and guitar
*2003 ''A Waltzer in the House'' for soprano and vibraphone, setting of a poem by [[Stanley Kunitz]]
*2004 ''Round'' for SATB
*2004 Concerti for Orchestra, for James Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra
*2004 ''Autobiography of the Eye'' for soprano and cello, setting of a poem by [[Paul Auster]]
*2005–6 ''More Melismata'' for solo cello
*2006 ''An Encore'' for violin & piano
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===String quartets===
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;First period
*1948 String Quartet No. 1 (withdrawn)
*1954 [[String Quartet No. 2 (Babbitt)|String Quartet No. 2]]
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;Second period
*1970 [[String Quartet No. 3 (Babbitt)|String Quartet No. 3]]
*1970 [[String Quartet No. 4 (Babbitt)|String Quartet No. 4]]
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;Third period
*1982 [[String Quartet No. 5 (Babbitt)|String Quartet No. 5]]
*1993 [[String Quartet No. 6 (Babbitt)|String Quartet No. 6]]
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