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[Terrance]

Tchaikovsy's R&J is but one of what Cowart says, is a direct
or indirect reference to composers representing nearly every
stage of the development of music during the past four
hundred years in P's first novel. Cowart argues that P's
allusions often demand a lot of the reader, he suggests that
P cannot expect his readers to have an equal chance at the
musical allusions as at the literary, pictorial, and so on.
Yet, Cowart says, the number of musical allusions increase
and become more difficult and more important.