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Pathetic style
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BBD a10037597
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MT Music terms
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May also be used as a subdivision to terms in the Works List (WL) hierarchy
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Rhetorical category of the classical period described by J.J.Rousseau (1768) as "a genre of dramatic and theatrical music which tends to paint and to arouse the grand passions and more particularly pain and sadness (cf. Elaine Sisman, "Pathos and the Pathetique," Beethoven Forum 3 (1994): 81-105)
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Style
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Rhetoric
 
Sentimental style
 
Tragedy