#5 Milton Babbitt

The ideas that Babbitt proposes are very similar to John Cage's ideas. He believes that musical thought has changed tremendously and that music is open to any interpretation. He believes that serious music is only supposed to be for the small and elite public. I think that his theory that if music doesn't evolve that it will cease to live. This is an interesting statement, and I agree with it. If music didn't change than we would have nothing new to listen to. Additionally, I feel that people develop ideas off of other music, so I think that it is inevitable to stop the evolution of music.