... page make-up, which arrived today, a dreadful error has occurred at the type-setters: the formal diagram of the last movement has been placed four pages too late (incomprehensible what could have brought that about?!), as a result of which the ...

... für die fehlenden Sätze springen, die aber – wie ich feststellte – der Sachse August Ludwig schon vor 40 Jahren geschrieben hat: „Philosophen-Scherzo“ und „Schicksalsmarsch“.Ludwig wrote these two movements in 1892; the “complete” symphony was ...

... , I see advantages to both. 1) With regard to form, when the arrangement of the familiar succession in a sonata-form movement has a clear logic, it can only be this: to orient us to the entry of new themes, to the location of developed themes, to ...

... will end in disappointment. Apart from that, however, I believe that this idealism belongs to a lost cause. It is a cause that can never become what the initiators of this movement promise. The “national liberation” of the Jews does not exist there ...

... 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 ...

... merely coordinated, but not matched to one another as the composer intended so that they could coalesce to form a four-bar period. The way that the second theme of the first movement was played was arbitrary and irksome; the three-measure group in the ...

... comparison with the first period. In Vienna we have available only the first movement of the "Les adieux" Sonata, but no autograph from the earlier time. Also very important is the distinction between . and Ꞌ that Beethoven made but that the editors ...

... neue Skizze begonnen hat." ("At Hammer's from 4:30 to 5; Lie-Liechen believes she noticed that Hammer began a new sketch, a movement making an impression on him."). Hammer left Vienna the following week (see the postcard received by Schenker on May 22 ...

... always consistent; that is, to every cause she supplies its logical effect; but that is just why it would be wrong ever to give her consistency another name: progress, history, trend, movement. A humpback, a mule, a mulatto, and all other such things of ...

... second question: Brahms’s String Quartet in C minor, third movement (Allegretto molto moderato), in which the rhythmic relationships are extremely striking. Why indeed does Brahms write the first note as an upbeat? He could indeed have begun on the ...