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... already avenged itself through such bitter setbacks. – – But enough. W. von Moellendorff sent me the review that Bittner published about the quarter-tone harmonium in the Wiener freie Presse. Why was Korngold not there? The quarter tones are a given for ...
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Diary entry for 1917-01-29
... misunderstandings: the one regarding youth, as if every youth were automatically a genius-imbued complete entity; the other regarding quarter tones, about which I note that even our chromatic system presupposes the strongest feeling for diatonicism, and that a ...
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... performance indications to this bar, but always applied staccato dots only to the following bars of the ordinary quarters, so that given the general precision of his markings, one could assume that he did not want the bar with the octave leaps performed with ...
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... von Möllendorf, who will be performing some of what he has produced in the Vienna Association of Musicians on a quarter-tone instrument."). In meinen freien Stunden sitze ich jetzt wieder an Ihren Musikalischen Theorien und Phantasien und versuche ...
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... ; to the soldiers on the Western Front it must feel strange. But what helps – corruption is widespread. The only thing missing for us now is the quarter-tone music of my friend von Moellendorff; he tells me that the cause "moves forward"; and that ...
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... .)Probably a reference to the quarter-tone music of Alois Hába, founder of a department of microtonal music at the Prague Conservatory in the 1920s. Notabene: Gäbe es noch eine andere Möglichkeit, als die bestehende, die Genies hätten sie gewiss ausgenutzt! Aus ...
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Diary entry for 1917-01-17
... only in terms of the cadence. With regard to the speed of the Adagio, I explain that the eighth notes of the Adagio should be played like the quarter notes of the preceding AllegroVivace, but just with the modifications required by the special ...
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Diary entry for 1924-09-24
... . 177, draw to his attention that in the Trio, the fact that there are two instead of three quarter-notes to a beat itself gives the impression of a retardation, which is why it is not necessary to play even more slowly than what the notation itself ...
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Diary entry for 1927-12-18
... songs was as inappropriate as it could possibly have been, the performance still less fortunate. The singer drained "Feldeinsamkeit" from every quarter-note and eighth-note, and she did exactly the same in the other songs, where each musical phrase had ...
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... Dr. Einstein send me further examples and should I have any sort of doubts, I shall communicate my doubts to you ahead of time, so that the copies in this case, too, can be produced with minimum delay. I must naturally convert your quarter-rests and ...