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... a broad way and that of the Italians more specifically. The searching and feeling of our time, which emerge from under the spell of Wagner and his theories, makes it necessary and topical to create the foundations for a clear aesthetic of the ...
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... secretary at the Austrian embassy, the Viennese-born Schüslorin Schnabel, is working very diligently through your Theory of Harmony. Otherwise beyond some very flighty female piano students there is nothing to work with here. Whatever use one makes of the ...
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... remind me what you recommended by Mozart. With respect to Beethoven, you ought to be free to make your own plans for the Little Library. Your Theory of Harmony was in fact not in stock in Vienna. Universal Edition gave me inaccurate information about this ...
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... issue of Tonwille, Herder says it. I buy every one of your newly published books and always get Tonwille, yet I simply can't seem to grasp anything in Theory of Harmony beyond the first quarter of the book. My own work ever continues to grow. Last year I ...
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... verzichten müssen, Ihnen eine grössere Serie einzuräumen, so bitte sich Sie, nach Belieben ein Thema zu wählen, das in drei Vorträgen halbwegs zu erschöpfen wäre,Schenker’s original topic had been "The Theory of Harmony" (Harmonielehre) (OJ 5/14, [1], June 29 ...
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... and scale-degree progression. Click on music example to expand At the moment, I am busy reading your Theory of Harmony, of which the chapter on tonicization has especially enthralled me. How simple now does so much appear to me that hitherto was so ...
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... Schnirlin has been faithful to the original notation is also not always evident. Because of the incompetence of Universal Edition, I have not had the missing gatherings of your Theory of Harmony replaced despite your kind intervention. But perhaps the ...
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... with him; perhaps there may be a possibility for theory lessons. — Have you read the most recent impertinence in the latest issue of Die Musik about the lectures that Webern presented at a "Viennese residence." Do people actually take seriously what ...
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... Schenker regarded as momentous for himself and his theory. Schenker had written to Anthony van Hoboken and Wilhelm Furtwängler on September 29, 1930 giving them the news, and to Felix-Eberhard von Cube on November 1. Sehr interessant, dass nicht die Musiker ...
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... necessary for the time being to opt for piano lessons over theory lessons. I ask for your assent to my proposal of today, and at the same time request your suggestion as to the selection (for the first lesson) of sheet music to bring with me. I am thrilled ...