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... across the bar-line: both were impossible, not permitted.) To waste a word on this is actually a scandal. Since music began to breathe, its voices have known such an independence of movement – counterpoint shows and teaches this, too – but of course when ...
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... reached me here (printed form) with the request to supplement the existing entry from the Riemann Lexicon. I read the entry for the first time and found it curious: it lacks Counterpoint II/2, the "collected edition" of the piano sonatas of Beethoven, even ...
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... endeavor with this to give a supplementary study to your pure teachings of counterpoint, a contribution to its reconstruction. December 28 Last night I was told the following typical incident: on the 26th the Opera season at the Costanzi Theatre opened with ...
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... Counterpoint, and my first impulse was to throw myself into the Introduction. What a profound Lenten sermon you have delivered to the world of today? I only hope it is heeded! I don't need to tell you how very much you express my own deeply felt opinions. You ...
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... meaning on the word "first": in which case one would have to rule out Schenker's Theory of Harmony and Counterpoint, and C. P. E. Bach's Essay (which, indeed, also have to do with music) as belonging to the category of textbook. Apart from the fact that ...
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... . It is entirely unclear to me how UE can assume that I am occupied with such a task or that I have ever expressed the intention of incorporating parts of Counterpoint in the Theory of Harmony. The misunderstanding seems to have arisen from a certain Mr ...
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... which I would have to write tears, if I were able to. I always knew that he was the last master, that music is dead is something I understood long, long before the others were forced to admit this. (See the preface to Counterpoint, vol. 1.) This pain ...
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... ahead of Oppel; Vrieslander would be quite excellent for counterpoint and thoroughbass. cued from lower margin:It goes without saying that the “Urlinie” would be well covered by him; thus he is in fact the only one under consideration who will have an ...
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... say that the term “genius” should altogether be avoided with regard to these artists. In my great achievement, specifically in my unified conception of the theory of harmony, counterpoint and structural levels – and ultimately in the crowning by the ...
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... the program. Here a bouquet of surprises: At the end of July Prof. Dr. Oppel from Kiel visited me here. He has been engaged at Leipzig to teach theory, and there will implement my system completely – harmony, counterpoint, analysis etc. He too is a ...