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Diary entry for 1919-07-14
... 79/5). Schenker changed the paragraph "Vom Kern der melodischen Linie als Mittler zwischen Stimmführung und Stufe" (On the core of the melodic line as intermediary between scale degree and voice leading) to "Von der Urlinie als Mittler zwischen Stufe ...
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Diary entry for 1929-12-11
... has led him along the false path of playing as lightly as possible, thus cannot refrain from applying pressure and drastic accentuation. The left hand hardly ever contributes, and thus the upper voice and the inner voice taken by the right hand are ...
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Diary entry for 1912-10-01
... sie waren die vollendeten Werte, noch ehe sie Salten für erneuerungsbedürftig erklärt hat. October 1. The voices in favor of the classics are multiplying noticeably! Enraged modernists like, for instance, Salten, are finally understanding that the ...
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Diary entry for 1914-12-20
... nations, like the ancient Greek and Roman, and today's German nation, were clear on the content and how to give voice to it in exemplary fashion. These are the truly classical nations, who have succeeded in expressing their being as felicitously and ...
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Diary entry for 1915-07-16
... America; thoroughly excellent in tone. Admittedly, however, the torpedoing of the Lusitania was the most effective note, the only tone of voice that the English businessman understands. ...
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Diary entry for 1916-04-03
... voice: "I'm in military service, I can do nothing more about it." Even in times of peace, the Viennese craftsman are paid only for their own time and steal from others audaciously, to say nothing of when the Viennese is in military service. Before such a ...
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Diary entry for 1916-05-03
... spared an ordeal. Englishmen and Americans: human beings begotten by dollars, not by humans. In Der Kunstwart strong voices are heard that sound plausible to me: either it is true that we are not exposed to the danger of famine and that the ships docked ...
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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 ...
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Diary entry for 1917-06-20
... from Wanner, Seefeld: description of the meals, which agrees with us. From Winternitz, a promise of a coal delivery next week. From Dr. Platz from Giessen in Hesse, a cycle of seven songs arranged for voice and piano; very good construction, but ...
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Diary entry for 1917-08-24
... to Vrieslander: I tell him that Counterpoint 2 is finished. Letter to Roth: the same thing; I mention the contents, and how I have worked especially hard on thoroughbass – against my original intention – only to prove the identity of voice leading ...