AND NOW THE MUSIC

Chapter:

CHAPTER 8 Pathos Is Banned

Source:

MUSIC IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

Author(s):

Richard Taruskin

Turning at long last to Stravinsky’s Octet, the work that started this tortuous discussion of sinister subtexts and convoluted circumstances on its way, we may be relieved—or dismayed—to find that, taken on its own terms, it is such an innocently diverting little piece. But of course to say that much is already a joke—or at least an exercise, like everything else in this chapter, in irony.

Citation (MLA):

Richard Taruskin. "Chapter 8 Pathos Is Banned." The Oxford History of Western Music. Oxford University Press. New York, USA. n.d. Web. 15 Mar. 2025. <https://www.oxfordwesternmusic.com/view/Volume4/actrade-9780195384840-div1-008008.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 15 Mar. 2025, from https://www.oxfordwesternmusic.com/view/Volume4/actrade-9780195384840-div1-008008.xml

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Richard Taruskin. "Chapter 8 Pathos Is Banned." In Music in the Early Twentieth Century, Oxford University Press. (New York, USA, n.d.). Retrieved 15 Mar. 2025, from https://www.oxfordwesternmusic.com/view/Volume4/actrade-9780195384840-div1-008008.xml