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Searched for foreground in Diaries (39 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1910-06-01

    ... timpani in the foreground, not to mention the (strictly metronomical) bungling of the priceless content without the remotest sense of its meaning. Intellectual abuse of youth. The Neue freie Presse praises the "actions" and the spirit of the Director. ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-11-04

    ... report that the newspapers do not merely report or merely relate: but time and again their journalists push themselves into the foreground at the expense of what is to be reported and related. The ungrateful and certainly not high-ranking task of ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-05-01

    ... little chick – this he can understand! The foreground of all events in Nature corrupts the foolish man, merely appropriating for himself the theory of the stronger; but Nature preaches far more than this: it preaches justice, even with respect to the ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-04-28

    ... , Nocturne, Op. 15, No. 2"; p. 41, part of Fortsetzungen der Urlinie-Betrachtungen, contains a discussion of the Nocturne including a two-level graph (Klischee) numbered Fig. 32, also Fig. 34, illustrating "the totality of the foreground as a figure"; Eng ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-08-19

    ... Urlinietafel (foreground graph) of the first movement of the "Eroica" Symphony, from Schenker's essay in Meisterwerk III, ends with the Retransition, followed by "(Wdhlg.)" ("Recapitulation"). Fig. 26 is a two-level graph of the Coda (measures 551‒691). Ich ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-11-04

    ... foreground graphs to the second movement of the "Eroica". Concert given by Schnabel: Schubert, Sonata in C minor; Mozart, D major with the first movement in 6/8 time, Diabelli Variations – basically, a pianist who does not know the elements that were ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-12-08

    ... haunted by so much falsification, the truth of an intertwining of background and foreground can no longer by gainsaid! ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-07-15

    ... points of view about art to push into the foreground to obscure Nature. For sure, if a painter wished to take possession of these things of Nature for artistic purposes, then he would have to do everything necessary with respect to the special ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-02-26

    ... individual, frightens the whole of humanity. (In their tragedies, the poets are right to place the theme of death so plainly in the foreground; see an earlier note). Until the tragic moment of death, all the goodness of the individual founders on egoism, and ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-03-17

    ... that is very deeply revealing. Background – reflexes; foreground – consciousness; thinking as such a selection; thus the simplest thinking is a selection among the reflexes. Art = a still more discriminating selection, with creative features. ...

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