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Searched for neighbor-note in Diaries (20 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1932-07-23

    ... emergency, his first recommendation would be Switzerland and England. From 8 to 9 o’clock in the evening, dictation for Neighboring Note, second order for Free Composition. Games of solitaire. ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-11-14

    ... an extraordinarily beautiful, visionary observation on the first movement of the Eroica: concerning the neighbor note a², which Beethoven approaches right at the beginning via a hairpin crescendo. He believes that this gesture, this phenomenon in the ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-01-27

    ... in the least understood the content of my reply. From Gärtner, two waltz themes in an arrangement by Friedman: modern witticisms, neighbor notes with main notes, passing tones inserted as often as possible, and similar features; these ought not ...

  • Diary entry for 1932-07-22

    ... (letter, and Waldheim’s letter returned): everything in order, the way to America is clear; 160 shillings shipping charge is too expensive!! From Miss Elias (picture postcard): thanks for receiving her. Neighboring Note, second level for Free Composition ...

  • Diary entry for 1907-05-25

    ... no part). As to Strauss's music: in its "motives" (one-measure ones, or even shorter!), it forever returns to the same cheap device, the device of tension through neighbor-notes; in its broader materials, on the other hand, it reaches an unparalleled ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-02-20

    ... the coffee house. We were just at the point of getting some rest and had to postpone it for a while. Floriz is here for only two days. We give Vally 4 Kronen. "Neighbor Note" finished. ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-01-30

    ... tones, neighbor notes, unresolved passing notes, tied notes, in short by little things that bless the composer from one place to another but do not make the totality the better for them. Brünauer, for the first time, allows a lesson lost on account of ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-12-04

    ... land. We come from the earth, and we belong essentially to it, rather than to the water and the air. No human development can change this. (Parallelism in the realm of music: compared to the passing note, as the primal manifestation, the neighbor note ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-10-24

    ... rendered! I show him the secret of the Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream – the motive of a fourth; that of the "Eroica" – the neighbor note; and I again make an attempt with Brahms: under the pretext of showing him an Urlinie, I sneak in the piece and ...

  • Diary entry for 1926-10-03

    ... neighbor-note. He completely missed the point that, from this point of view, only a single tone would be delineated, not a harmony; and this explains why he could not understand the requirement of a "first passing-tone." What was of value was his wish that ...

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