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• Diary entry for 1912-12-04

  ... sogenannten Parallel-Tonarten hervorrufen. 4. Letter to Kux, with disclosure of the truth regarding my brother. In the evening, at Floriz’s for a visit. Conversation with him about the Ionian mode and C major, since he has still not read the note on p. 209 ...

• Diary entry for 1912-11-25

  ... . I am told that Mr. Wöss, on the occasion of analyzing one of Mahler's last works in terms of a mixture of the major and minor modes, declared that precursors of this could be found "already in the works of Beethoven." This horrifying and amusing ...

• Diary entry for 1915-05-25

  ... also politically valuable success over Italy; (2) victory at Radymno, which brings in 21,000 prisoners! It is the same with states as with tonal systems: only a genius can command the major and minor truly well; by contrast, the non-geniuses are unable ...

• Diary entry for 1913-10-09

  ... suddenly made with respect to the difference between the major and minor seventh. The major seventh strives upwards, as a "leading note"; only the lowering of this tone (that is, the minor seventh) overcomes this tendency in favor of the descending ...

• Diary entry for 1913-12-15

  ... overtone series to the tonal system, and the minor mode to the major. With increased culture, it will be the ambition of all people to practice the sexual act at a higher level, beyond the unavoidable puberty. But in all things, most people make use only of ...

• Diary entry for 1914-11-06

  ... – to use an analogy – would be comparable with tonicized harmonic degrees distant from the principal key. That is, there is, for example, nothing objectionable about the harmonies VI or VII in C major becoming tonicized, and thus taking on the necessary ...

• Diary entry for 1915-09-26

  ... , love wants to be learned, like any other handicraft; and thus one might understand it still better when I say: as little musicians are able to express themselves successfully in the major and minor tonal system – and here only a few geniuses can do so ...

• Diary entry for 1916-12-17

  ... business people, it is a difficult act to find people who wish to be and to remain human beings as their principal occupation. In the synthesis of major and minor, only the geniuses move with consummate skill, just as in the synthesis of culture it is again ...

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