Talk:"Ode-to-Napoleon" hexachord

This article was nominated for deletion on 16 March 2025. The result of the discussion was keep.

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Babbitt's Composition for Four Instruments

"It figures in Babbitt's music, above all in the Composition for Four Instruments" (1948), third and fourth movements, and the Composition for Twelve Instruments (1948)." - Van den Toorn (1996), p.129.

The discussion presently includes a reference to "the third and fourth movements" of Milton Babbitt's Composition for Four Instruments, which is a single-movement work. The citation to van den Toorn is perfectly accurate, but it simply cannot mean what it says. Are van den Toorn's other attributions for this hexachord unreliable?—Jerome Kohl (talk) 01:41, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The piece does contain sections, and switching the words "section" and "movement" is a common mistake/typo. Hyacinth (talk) 00:49, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Most uncharacteristic for Pieter, but even Homer nods, I suppose. The problem as I see it is, can we simply correct this slip, or must we follow the source, despite the error in it?—Jerome Kohl (talk) 01:36, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed Deletion

There isn't a cited source here that refers to this hexachord as the "Ode to Napoleon hexachord". There might be a justification for an article about this particular hexachord, but it's a thin one. Given the shambolic state of this article, it seems the best course of action is to delete it.Trumpetrep (talk) 02:09, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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There are already too many set classes listed in the set classes article which have no links to musical examples. This stands to contribute to reader perception that most set classes have no real musical utility. We need more articles like this one, not fewer. If you don't like the article, we can fix it. If you don't like the title, we can change it to something like "Musical Set Class 6-20".

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ñññ 186.154.39.188 (talk) 18:27, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]