BREAKING WITH TRADITION

Chapter:

CHAPTER 8 Pathos Is Banned

Source:

MUSIC IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

Author(s):

Richard Taruskin

Ortega was writing in 1925, two years after Stravinsky brought forth his Octet, when the big change in sensibility that he was describing was (or seemed) a fait accompli. In 1912, it did not yet look that way. Pierrot lunaire, as the quotation above from Wellesz already implied, seemed an exceptional work within Schoenberg’s output, even a somewhat deviant one. It had been commissioned from an outside party, after all; it did not arise “spontaneously” out of his own artistic imagination. And, at the time, its commitment to irony was not as obvious as it may appear today.

Citation (MLA):

Richard Taruskin. "Chapter 8 Pathos Is Banned." The Oxford History of Western Music. Oxford University Press. New York, USA. n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2024. <https://www.oxfordwesternmusic.com/view/Volume4/actrade-9780195384840-div1-008004.xml>.

Citation (APA):

Taruskin, R. (n.d.). Chapter 8 Pathos Is Banned. In Oxford University Press, Music in the Early Twentieth Century. New York, USA. Retrieved 12 Oct. 2024, from https://www.oxfordwesternmusic.com/view/Volume4/actrade-9780195384840-div1-008004.xml

Citation (Chicago):

Richard Taruskin. "Chapter 8 Pathos Is Banned." In Music in the Early Twentieth Century, Oxford University Press. (New York, USA, n.d.). Retrieved 12 Oct. 2024, from https://www.oxfordwesternmusic.com/view/Volume4/actrade-9780195384840-div1-008004.xml