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Searched for minor in Diaries (8 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1912-12-04

    ... .. On cases of modal mixture, about the more distant upper fifths in the minor, which invoke the semblance of so-called relative keys. ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-11-25

    ... concerning a new pupil, whom he is clearly not up to teaching. After lunch, a purely musical discussion of several passages from Chopin's Ballade in G minor. Something about the effects of my work: Mr. Louis in Munich suddenly discovers that diversity is ...

  • 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 1915-05-28

    ... told him, with these words: your teacher is entirely correct in understanding the scale-steps as unities of a great style, etc.; that he, Adler, on another occasion spoke also about the lowered second scale-step in minor, which had hitherto been, for ...

  • 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 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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