Talk:"Ode-to-Napoleon" hexachord

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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]