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Diary entry for 1913-01-09
... of harmony actually a theory of composition; one must almost have the rank of a composer in order to be able to decide about harmonic degrees. The fortuitous constructions within one harmonic degree in free composition. The key = a house! Modal ...
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Diary entry for 1917-02-23
... loads a ship with cargo. But what an even prouder cargo is a poet's construction of ideas! Upon a far more immeasurable ocean, how a poet's thought – a prouder ship, with prouder cargo – bears countless blessed generations! If for example a flea pursues ...
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Diary entry for 1919-07-13
... play him various things by Bach, Chopin and Schubert to give him an example of the concept of organic construction. At home in the afternoon due to the bad weather – work. ...
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Diary entry for 1927-02-10
... break-in insurance paid: 28.74 shillings. Mrs. Pairamall brings several new records from her collection, and leaves the record player for a week for me to play. Radio: piano concerto by Langstroth in C minor; thrown together and constructed, both ...
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Diary entry for 1930-03-15
... up with the composition. Richard Strauss's Don Juan – that, of course, is something more suited to Furtwängler: the restless hither and thither, the banal melodic construction, the long slurs, the kitsch (to use a popular word of today), the potpourri ...
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Diary entry for 1908-02-26
... the special character of its formal construction (as for example in the case of antecedent and consequent) nevertheless still countenances two solo instruments in contrast to the orchestra ‒ the "double concerto" ‒ but loses its integrity when extended ...
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Diary entry for 1908-03-22
... ), and Brahms, Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68. The Neue freie Presse for March 23 on p. 10 prints a review of this concert (of the Berlioz: "its material is threadbare, dry, the construction loose") and a retrospective of the series. Berlioz „Korsär ...
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Diary entry for 1915-05-25
... to use the system that is at their disposal as well as the former. In the very same way, it is only the geniuses who are able to deal with artificial state constructs. ...
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Diary entry for 1923-07-22
... erlernt Lie-Liechen von Frl. Ida die Frivolitätenarbeit. "Frivolitätenarbeit" (also known as "Schiffchenarbeit"): tatting, a technique for handcrafting a particularly durable lace constructed by a series of knots and loops. Tatting can be used to make lace ...
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Diary entry for 1926-10-30
... continue to agree with my demands, including the Urlinie. He invites me to read the letter without animosity and to act constructively, instead of contrarily! For Saphier, money paid. At 3:15 Mozio on his own, then his wife and their children. Lie ...