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Searched for background (34 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1929-02-28

    ... article arrives, four copies, also one for Hoboken and the Archive. Mozart Symphony, first movement in fair copy, also the background graph. After teatime, money for Saphir and for tax. At Kern's, Bruckner's Fourth purchased. Radio, 7:30: Rogatschewsky ...

  • Diary entry for 1932-02-08

    ... , 0°. The installment from Mozio has arrived. To Lanzer (express postcard): communication of this news. I permit Dr. Rozcas to call upon me – he finds me very well, prescribes a mild sedative. Work on "Background" for Free Composition. From Rothberger ...

  • Diary entry for 1932-03-29

    ... "Background" for Free Composition: examples, figures. To Tomay (postcard): reminder! To Dewanger (postcard): I ask him to come on April 13 at 11:30. To the publishers (letter): I urge them to send the 69.80 marks. At midday, +12°! From 6 o’clock to 6:30, out ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-05-19

    ... 's String Quartet in C major and Tristan und Isolde; I offer the background reading of the Mozart example by way of explanation, and in the second case a brief explanation of the true meaning of the Neapolitan sixth. From the publisher, the Vrieslander ...

  • Diary entry for 1932-02-12

    ... „zur Prüfung“ kommen könne? Lie-Liechen bestellt sie für Sonntag. 12, blue sky, -11°. From Frieda Fränkl (letter): a picture of her little girl and thanks for the – birthday letter! Work on Free Composition; at 11 o’clock, the section on Background ...

  • Diary entry for 1932-10-08

    ... shillings. To the DAZ, 58.14 shillings from July to December. The third section of "Background" in Free Composition begun! To Thorsch & Klein (letter): enquiry about the state of the share and interest payments. To Salzer (postcard): invitation. From ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-04-21

    ... should not be overlooked when one relates " tonality" in the narrower sense to the foreground, as the sum of all events, and " diatony" to the background as the succession of tones in the octave. In other words, if the differences between foreground and ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-04-02

    ... ; explains, among other things, the theory of atonality according to Alban Berg (Lie-Liechen understands this better than I); Klenau assures me that he has written to his brother-in-law. At the piano I indicate much about the background in music – mainly from ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-03-23

    ... is thus troubled by my theory, which also includes performance in the grand unity of things, which reveals music in its background, middleground and foreground, in voice-leading, and in form. Concerning his obsession with the idea that every ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-10-27

    ... accordance with my theory. Dictation: concerning a specific diminution-motive, which can be accommodated neither in the background nor in the middleground; concerning a passage in the development section of the "Eroica". After teatime, shopping. Radio: from 6 ...

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