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Diary entry for 1927-08-21
... 85," in an almost too vicious tone of voice! Afternoon snack in front of the house, windless; then for the first time with the travel blanket on the terrace opposite, where we read the newspaper until sunset. As we lift the blanket from the ground ...
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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 ...
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Diary entry for 1931-02-26
... Yearbook. Proceeding from the issue of The Rotarian, I applaud his interest in the matter of musical coherence. I ask him to accept my tone of voice on pp. 20–22! I quote Kestenberg, mention Weisse’s successes, in order to depict quite bluntly the way in ...
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Diary entry for 1936-06-29
... Simon: all have the same horizon, peasants from Galtür speak in a similar way (Walter, when mildly drunk and with little red eyes, used to say “… so far, we are okay …”, meaning the government, the political situation). In the same tone of voice, they ...
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Diary entry for 1911-08-21
... weiteres gestatten u. möglich machen, daß ich einer wedelnden Presse gegenüber in Herablassung gleichwohl auch konziliantere Töne finde. 21. Von der seltsamen Tat eines Hundes Um die Mittagszeit langen in Sulden Soldaten zur Übung ein, wie selbstverständig ...
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Diary entry for 1925-11-11
... harpsichord and finding that the “register” (i.e. tone quality) of the instrument is fairly constant over a large part of its compass, in comparison with the Streicher piano. Anschlagsnuançen, die z. B. Frau Landowska geleugnet hat, sind sehr wohl auch auf dem ...
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Diary entry for 1926-10-03
... criticism that my definition of the Urlinie suffered from imprecision was particularly striking! For two years now, he finds fault with the words "first passing-tone" in the definition. It would have been impossible to learn what the origins of this ...
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Diary entry for 1915-08-20
... question about the nature of his illness. The American government's reply to the Austrian. Again a tone of voice that would at most be permitted by sovereign state to one that was obliged to pay tribute to it. If America uses such a tone of voice under the ...
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Diary entry for 1916-05-19
... ist man gleichsam nur erst ein musikalischer Straßenkehrer gegenüber den Bismarcks der Töne, wie es unsere Meister waren. Man kann es auch durch ein Gleichnis aus der Welt der Grade bestimmen: Was sind gegenüber 100 Grad 2 Grad des musikalischenr ...
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Diary entry for 1916-10-25
... rubric of "risk". Today the shop owners in time of war; and no differently the rich in peacetime: – the same stem, the same fruit, with all of them the same tone of voice – with the single exception that those who have grown rich in peacetime assert the ...