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Searched for tone in Diaries (204 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1913-10-09

    ... Unterschieds zwischen der großen u. kleinen Sept: Große Sept strebt als „Leitton“ aufwärts – erst die Vertiefung dieses Tones (also die kl. Sept) überwindet diese Tendenz zugunsten der fallenden Richtung, woraus sich der Vorzug der kleinen Sept ergiebt ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-12-04

    ... Ewigkeit bestimmt ist, wogegen Strauss für sein Nichtskönnen wahrlich nichts kann. Die geistvollsten Ereignisse in den Partituren der Meister behandelt sein Taktstock etwa so, wie sein Kopf eine Zeitungsannonce lesen mag. Gewissermaßen waren die Töne eine ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-09-28

    ... -grubbiness, with the words: "I am a lady!" LetterOJ 13/17, [4] from Peters: impudent in tone, and incompetent in the matter itself. The publisher wants to play the gentleman, and still insists on the "test" of at least a movement of my choice; but he is asking for ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-12-21

    ... for beauty in tones that fulfilled their purpose so thoroughly that for him, furthermore, they also had an aesthetic value. If a Carnegie would have experienced so much happiness at a modest desk as Brahms did at his, I bet that he would have no need ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-08-08

    ... -Slavism, have changed their tone and are using words for which one would have credit to a newly-won insight if one did not know that this would immediately give way under different circumstances to make room for a brutal and narrow-minded dogmatism. It is said ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-04-03

    ... Saturday, in consideration of his work schedule. He did not come, but appeared unexpectedly on Monday at 5 o’clock in the afternoon. And when I pointed out that I was occupied with my pupil, he replied irritably, in an unpleasant Viennese mood and tone of ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-12-30

    ... that she had lost. Her tone of voice was so pitiable that one might have thought that something far more costly than a hat might have gone missing. Lie-Liechen said that the hat was evidently irreplaceable and she was materially not in a position to ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-01-01

    ... . Mrs. Deutsch is brought to the Auersperg Clinic; illness as yet unknown to us. In the Vossische Zeitung, the Rev. Traub in the uniquely appropriate tone of voice against defeatists, anglomaniacs, and the like. He demands steeliness, which a good ...

  • 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 1917-11-13

    ... unusually toned down, but with the sensational phrase: "How might we rejoice if we swept 50 kilometers into the enemy's country." But the speech of the French Prime Minister Painlevé, as with all previous French speeches, vain, spiteful, dumb. Conrad ...

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