... having motivated it, it is produced more merely by chromatic means instead of by tonal ones (i.e. by the least decisive means for a conclusion), and now this unwilling tone must carry the entire, long conclusion! If it were a robust procedure, everyone ...

... evidence of the clear tonal structure that his teacher's theory insisted upon. Schenker had himself done this twice in the recently published second volume of Das Meisterwerk in der Musik (dated 1926 but not issued until 1927): an extract from Stravinsky ...

... tonality are animated by a diatonic series of tones proceeding by step motion? Is not such a unity a wonder of the intellect? All the greater when it is more involuntary! I do not let everyone trample about on it. My pupils would be quick to make grimaces ...

... just purely visual terms – the true image of all tonal motion, a kind of onomatopoeia. The fact that the rich activity doesn’t attract attention is indeed my pride; it functions solely in the service of art and takes no heed of a listener. I may safely ...

... favorably the F minor tonality (at the repetition, G minor) of the second theme in the Fifth, etc. Also, in Halm's Manual of Harmony the passage from D to E in the first movement of the Seventh. The treatment of E as a pedal point in the coda (W) is ...

... did not understand the Urlinie clearly enough as the tonal space of a piece; or he believed that it was supposed to give a subordinate meaning to the form, etc. I set all these misconceptions aright, but I am concerned as to whether he will stick to ...

... unnatural system surviving beyond the Middle Ages only through inertia and church dogma, and that the major-minor system of tonality was given to man by "Nature's secret directives" (pp.70–97, trans. 55–76). Er war es auch, der indirekt durch den Leiter der ...

... – and had remained concealed by the hectic pace of daily life, by feelings of depression, or by doing things in a rush (!) – all of a sudden become crystal clear. Moreover, the question of or , or , and the like or is that very question about tonal space ...

... assignments related there. In that condition they are not strict composition, not free composition, the usual obscure domain. If I hadn't had obligatory respect for so many marvelous tonal images and above all for his genuine religiosity, I would have laughed ...

... about some things in it. { Brahms: You don't simply take me to be blind and deaf. How gladly I admire the first tonal exposition in the C minor Quartet. But the gesture of the theme! No, and ten times no. And not a bit of Yes mixed in. The gesture*, the ...