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Diary entry for 1932-03-19
... illustrations and sections of text set down; Lie-Liechen writes them up. From Vrieslander (letter): heart-warming – he intends to work on tonal space and the Urlinie!! – in 500 years I shall be recognized!!! From Franz Steiner (postcards, and a cordial ...
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Diary entry for 1930-04-21
... 's Intermezzo in B major, Op. 76; he admits to being unable to find an Urlinie – perhaps ellipsis? Weisse would like to believe that " tonality" and " diatony" should be kept strictly distinct. Conceptually, the terms mean the same, they are synonyms; and this ...
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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 ...
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Diary entry for 1929-08-07
... was in fact his life's plan; now all that is needed – at most – is a little book with remarks on my edition! From Weisse (letter= OJ 15/16, [62]): picture of Susi! He admits only now to having got his head round the secret of the concept of tonal space ...
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Diary entry for 1915-12-15
... impressive! This tonality is, of course, stronger and more appropriate to penetrate the skull of the English than the German Chancellor's polite one. That doesn't change anything about the protestations of the English, that one ought to speak politely to them ...
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Diary entry for 1914-11-06
... den eigenen großen tonal-zusammenfassenden Sinn. Ueberredung sagt der Dummheit nichts, nur Abwehr tritt an Stelle der Ueberredung; indem die Abwehr als Tat die Dummheit aufhält, schafft sie mindestens nachher die Möglichkeit einer Erkenntnis. Die ...
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Diary entry for 1927-02-07
... walk the two streets a second time! Radio: the Dresden String Quartet play Respighi's Quartet "in the Dorian mode" – an unworthy bluff of an incompetent! Moreover, not only the thematic material but also the tonality in the most inflexible monotony. ...
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Diary entry for 1913-12-25
... wretched by contrast is Austria, where party upon party destroys all possibility of forming bonds. I was immediately struck by the analogy in music which, in order to be able to achieve larger forms, conceives and makes use of tonal opposition only in the ...
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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 ...
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Diary entry for 1929-03-10
... was one of them. I warned him not to go off the rails here, explaining: there reigns above all forms the law of tonal space, which cannot however be derived from form but only from the Urlinie. He is planning compositions but will – as he expresses it ...