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Searched for octave in Diaries (30 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1920-07-27

    ... anything disadvantageous about the "post office." To Jetty (letter from Lie-Liechen): report on the journey, etc. Straighten up the octave and fifth sequences notebooks. Ate at home in the evening because of the bad weather. ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-04-21

    ... should not be overlooked when one relates " tonality" in the narrower sense to the foreground, as the sum of all events, and " diatony" to the background as the succession of tones in the octave. In other words, if the differences between foreground and ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-12-08

    ... (letter): an intermezzo by Brahms as a contribution to Brahms's study of consecutive fifths and octaves. From Rinn (postcard): he finds in the "Miscellanea" "... real treasures ..." which should be singled out by re-publication; he requests the issues of ...

  • Diary entry for 1906-10-31

    ... relationships of the octave, fifth, fourth, and after that the smaller and becoming ever smaller intervals; but just as between the numbers 1 and 2 an infinite series of subdivisions can be interpolated, all of which when added to 1 do not reach, and cannot ever ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-12-08

    ... regular periods. I show him, on the contrary, the octave coupling f1–f2, gl–g2, a1–a2 as the leading factor, and also decisive for the rhythm. I explain the path to the root A from the progression of the bass: F–A–C–F. We speak at length about the Trio ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-12-11

    ... deprived of a corresponding weight in the bass part; those voices hang in the air and are not joined to the orchestra. Also, he completely ignores the basic principle that, in the octaves above c¬3 and c4, even in a pianissimo dynamic marking, full ...

  • Diary entry for 1897-02-12

    ... at least to place the original on the piano in the same register, then for the time being he transposed the piece an octave lower purely in the interests of the best sonority; and in bringing the left hand alone into play for this reason he created a ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-03-11

    ... was often transposed up an octave in early twentieth-century performances. empfehle ihm Em. Bachs Litaneyen u. erzähle über Bruno Walter, was ich kürzlich von Floriz hörte. Hupka sucht mich gegen Abend, trifft mich aber nicht zuhause; bittet, mich ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-11-13

    ... Personen, die sich zu einer wahren Liebe nicht durchringen können. November 13, 1916. Moderately cloudy, cool. Final preliminary work on parallel octaves. A quick visit to Meinl after teatime results in a considerable haul of marmalade. Letter from Mrs ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-10-24

    ... . To Oppel (postcard): I shall let him know the date. To Brünauer (postcard): I ask the price of the two pieces for Hoboken. To Weisse (postcard): thanks for telling me about the consecutive octaves in the second volume of Kontrapunkt; I shall get hold ...

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