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• Diary entry for 1923-09-04

  ... somehow senses the individual existence of tonal art; will send him a few things of mine. After teatime, request the stove cleaner to come and purchases: hot water bottle, meat grinder, mortar. At Baudrexel's, who gave up his former business and is selling ...

• Diary entry for 1925-11-02

  ... ’s special art. Once again, he believes that he must defend the concept of Urlinie against the term “Urlinie progressions.” It becomes ever clearer to me that he is already lumping together the tonal space in which the Urlinie moves with the Urlinie as ...

• Diary entry for 1913-12-15

  ... overtone series to the tonal system, and the minor mode to the major. With increased culture, it will be the ambition of all people to practice the sexual act at a higher level, beyond the unavoidable puberty. But in all things, most people make use only of ...

• Diary entry for 1917-12-07

  ... it can be mentioned, that he acknowledges me as the congenial author of composed out tonal pitches, and no less a "co-founder" of the Schoenberg secondary harmonies! That is in any case better, than if he had named Schoenberg as a co-founder of my ...

• Diary entry for 1923-12-20

  ... passages revealing something akin to ordered inspiration, ordered voice-leading; certainly still within a tonal framework. Beethoven played badly. Pollak displays nice turns of phrase of his own now and again, Sirota impossible, Buxbaum colorless. In the ...

• Diary entry for 1924-05-07

  ... beanspruche. 2–3½h bei Hammer: recht anstrengend; hat ein Schabblatt Schablatt (mezzotint): "Schabtechnik," also called mezzotint printmaking method, was invented by the German amateur artist Ludwig von Siegen (1609–80). Mezzotint achieves tonality by ...

• Diary entry for 1929-03-10

  ... was one of them. I warned him not to go off the rails here, explaining: there reigns above all forms the law of tonal space, which cannot however be derived from form but only from the Urlinie. He is planning compositions but will – as he expresses it ...

• Diary entry for 1930-12-05

  ... only was it insufficiently thought out and felt, one could hear distinctly from his performance how much he hung in insecurity! What he said in opposition to Schoenberg's "floating tonality," that Schoenberg appears to float about, applies to Weisse ...

• Diary entry for 1915-09-26

  ... , love wants to be learned, like any other handicraft; and thus one might understand it still better when I say: as little musicians are able to express themselves successfully in the major and minor tonal system – and here only a few geniuses can do so ...

• Diary entry for 1912-10-30

  ... a clear tonality, because it lacks the tonic of a genius. Nothing is more alien to a child than love for other beings. Instinctively it seeks merely to acquire the means that will serve to build up his organism, and does so by the suppression of ...

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