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Diary entry for 1919-07-14
... 79/5). Schenker changed the paragraph "Vom Kern der melodischen Linie als Mittler zwischen Stimmführung und Stufe" (On the core of the melodic line as intermediary between scale degree and voice leading) to "Von der Urlinie als Mittler zwischen Stufe ...
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Diary entry for 1913-09-18
... . In precisely this powerlessness, with respect to himself and to others, do the poets also wish to portray him on stage, but without realizing that it is the poet's duty to raise this powerlessness artificially by a certain degree, just so that his ...
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Diary entry for 1914-01-12
... enthalten? 12. Frosty weather. 10 degrees. Sensational trial of the serial poisoner Hopf in Frankfurt, which again gives occasion for various errors regarding perverse inclinations. I dispute that nature itself gives people perverse inclinations in their way ...
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Diary entry for 1914-11-19
... Bewußtsein des deutschen Planes, sondern mehr mit dem Ausdruck eines Vorwurfes wegen überflüssiger Zerstörungs- u. Raubsucht. November 19, 1914. Temperature of zero degrees! Postcard from the apartment house administrator, who opens the possibility of ...
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Diary entry for 1915-02-13
... bring me so much help." – They are actually even stupider than they are poor, and for stupidity there is no help. Lie-Liechen triumphs because she anticipated the case ahead of me. And yet her triumph is too cheap! For such a degree of stupidity, which ...
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Diary entry for 1915-02-24
... 24. II. 15 Weisse überreicht mir die vollendete Studie „Ueber den Kunstwalzer“ mit Widmung! Hans Weisse was a doctoral student of Guido Adler's at the University of Vienna, and was awarded the Ph.D. degree in 1919 for a thesis on the "artistic waltz ...
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Diary entry for 1915-08-24
... not only deprives us of peace until 1:30 at night but also affects us to a much greater degree than did the drinking party of the 18th, described above. This time, however, there were not even especially accomplished players; what they sang were mostly ...
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Diary entry for 1916-03-27
... have an organ, and also a choir; but I rarely go there." This degree of vanity, for sure, can only testify to the worst outcome for the young man; for apparently he found the lack of opportunities less painful than my supposition that he is Jewish. And ...
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Diary entry for 1918-01-16
... independence to a head. To a certain degree, it no longer has need of Austria, and so it now does what all rich people do: it simply shakes off its impecunious fellow-country like a beggar. Evening 10° and warm! ...
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Diary entry for 1918-02-28
... . To all intents and purposes it seems to me that he is afraid of printer's ink, has a kind of agrophobia, or perhaps is trying to avoid burning his bridges with Prof. Adler before attaining his doctoral degree. In the evening with Gärtner and Mrs. and ...