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Searched for tonality in Diaries (31 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1915-05-25

    ... also politically valuable success over Italy; (2) victory at Radymno, which brings in 21,000 prisoners! It is the same with states as with tonal systems: only a genius can command the major and minor truly well; by contrast, the non-geniuses are unable ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-01-23

    ... Weisse (postcard): I explain the misunderstanding regarding the fingering and the tonality question arising from I–III–V, for which the recapitulation offers the proof at the analogous point – thus Brahms is in the right, in spite of his (Weisse ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-08-07

    ... was in fact his life's plan; now all that is needed – at most – is a little book with remarks on my edition! From Weisse (letter= OJ 15/16, [62]): picture of Susi! He admits only now to having got his head round the secret of the concept of tonal space ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-12-15

    ... impressive! This tonality is, of course, stronger and more appropriate to penetrate the skull of the English than the German Chancellor's polite one. That doesn't change anything about the protestations of the English, that one ought to speak politely to them ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-11-06

    ... den eigenen großen tonal-zusammenfassenden Sinn. Ueberredung sagt der Dummheit nichts, nur Abwehr tritt an Stelle der Ueberredung; indem die Abwehr als Tat die Dummheit aufhält, schafft sie mindestens nachher die Möglichkeit einer Erkenntnis. Die ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-11-11

    ... . Steinitz, with petition. Very well written per se, but it still does not, unfortunately, make use of the sharper tonality. In addition, the writer seems not to have read my letters, something which would have naturally not prevented him from pretending that ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-02-07

    ... walk the two streets a second time! Radio: the Dresden String Quartet play Respighi's Quartet "in the Dorian mode" – an unworthy bluff of an incompetent! Moreover, not only the thematic material but also the tonality in the most inflexible monotony. ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-06-13

    ... composers is readily apparent from his writings in the 1920s. His particular antipathy towards Reger's Op. 86 probably results from its tonal structure: at the start, the theme (Beethoven's Bagatelle Op. 119, No. 6) the variations are each set in a different ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-12-25

    ... wretched by contrast is Austria, where party upon party destroys all possibility of forming bonds. I was immediately struck by the analogy in music which, in order to be able to achieve larger forms, conceives and makes use of tonal opposition only in the ...

  • Diary entry for 1919-10-06

    ... reads aloud from his Busoni rebuttal, receives more information about the tonality problem from me, and specifically what the response should be to the demand for 113 systems. At 6:30 in a carriage to Mendel's, took Figdor along, picked up Dr. Klein on ...

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