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¹ Cf. his lesson for January 8. Weisse had embarked on counterpoint studies in November 1912, working through two- and three-voice counterpoint up to this point. He is now embarking on the study of the thoroughbass section of C. P. E. Bach’s Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen (1753–62), probably in the one-volume edition by Gustav Schilling (Herzberg: Franz Mohr, 1852; Berlin: Stage, 1856), of which Schenker had a copy in his private library. See Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments, Eng. transl. William J. Mitchell (New York: W. W. Norton; London: Cassell, 1949; London: Eulenburg, 1974), pp. 180–97 (= Chapter I).

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