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Searched for thoroughbass in Diaries (60 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1932-09-21

    ... : two by Steglich, one (C. P. E. Bach) by Vrieslander. From 5 to 7:30, Prof. Haas for afternoon snack. I give him a Hoboken "showcase": thoroughbass, chorale, Brahms’s Op. 17117, Nos. 1–3, twelve mazurkas by Chopin ‒ all of this he finds basically ...

  • Diary entry for 1919-08-29

    ... Vrieslander himself has been inadequately prepared for this method by me, this deficiency can be overcome later. I only all the more urgently recommend the study of thoroughbass of Bach, father as well as son, explain the fundamental differences between the ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-08-11

    ... 's handbook on thoroughbass accessible? In the afternoon, at work. Wilhelm Meister VII 3–4. The lady from Vienna declares that the English are "commendable" because – "they wash themselves"! For her, this evidently has more to do with the English role model ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-08-12

    ... thoroughbass read to the end once again. After a short walk, to the dinner table; and after soup we heard an incomparable zither player, Mr. Göttlicher. This extraordinary man who, so to speak, lives in the nether reaches of art, has such all-powerful instincts ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-10-27

    ... Chöre u. Stimmführung nicht auf). 27. Trip to Tullnerbach–Preßbaum. I read the introduction to Schiller's The Bride of Messina. First attempt at a commentary on C. P. E. Bach's thoroughbass study. So long as people can see that only a cow or goat can ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-04-27

    ... way answered my letter. Weisse reports several of Prof. Guido Adler's comical and sheep-headed ideas. Thus, for example, "thoroughbass is the study of harmony" and "C.P.E. Bach's book teaches continuo playing"; "analysis is self-explanatory – its task ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-01-21

    ... (something which, as he cleverly senses, would have to lower his standing), and so he is lining up alongside those detractors with an announcement of an instructive statement. How a scribbler will present thoroughbass and all the ingredients that go into a ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-01-27

    ... which would be revealed in equal measure in the exercises in thoroughbass and in free counterpoint. Bach was aiming only at a special assignment and perhaps had no opportunity to codify the greater prolongations of free counterpoint. – I thank him for ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-07-15

    ... , replaces its unfruitfulness with an over-powerful busy-ness that, looked at closely, is rather an act of destroying and rebuilding which is played in turn by various parties with differing roles, entirely in the manner of a children's game. Thoroughbass ...

  • Diary entry for 1924-01-30

    ... integrity of their creative production, but their voice-leading is flawed, obviously due to a lack of improvisational ability, that which in my view derives from a misunderstanding of thoroughbass and of harmonic theory. Bring up Oppel's Op. 26 No. 1 and a ...

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