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Diary entry for 1932-01-21
... world the theory of the Urlinie, as the theory of coherence! Thanks be to Him! Thanks also to my much-beloved, who was summoned by God to assist me! Sholem Asch’s Von den Vätern – the first novella, Der Herr Salomon, I read with enchantment; poetry and ...
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Diary entry for 1934-10-26
... him to oppose the arrogance of today’s youth by proclaiming – preaching – musical coherence! ...
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Diary entry for 1931-02-26
... ’s on Saturday on account of Schiedermair. To the publishers (letter): I order a slip of paper with the reference to my theory of coherence, and to the first representation of the "Eroica." To Seligmann (letterWSLB I.N.94479): covering letter for the ...
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Diary entry for 1931-02-12
... before the microphone for the very first time. Letter to Preetorius, dictated: it is perhaps worth trying to understand the unity among all the arts in relation to the way in which I have explained coherence in music; – Lie-Liechen immediately makes the ...
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Diary entry for 1932-01-20
... notice by Rottenberg! The Urlinie should be incorporated into general knowledge only as the "theory of coherence"; to see it demonstrated by mediocre pupils is as fruitless a demand as the desire for a masterful composition! From 4:45 to 6, afternoon ...
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... transformations; I discovered the law of coherence in music, which is based on a play from the background through a middleground right up to the foreground. All variety in the foreground – the very things which a musical composition offers – has coherence only if ...
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Diary entry for 1930-12-05
... anything about the mistakes; I passed over them and continually stressed that he will certainly succeed in properly driving the theory of coherence into their ears, and that is sufficient! I also remarked in passing that this theory cannot actually be ...
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... different from previously taught theories of harmony, Schenker’s Counterpoint is likewise something different from what has previously been taught; and these theories have been formulated differently by him because they result from a coherence anchored in ...
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... progressions" (even if they are unable to follow the "Urlinie" as primeval mother at the very deepest background level), as the bearers of a coherence of the sort that is granted to speech by means of sentence construction, etc. That only now, after music has ...
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... coherence, recognized strict counterpoint in free composition, and taught how to read the masterworks of music correctly: a unique accomplishment, as singular as his works of genius. Schenker's activity and teaching, as Kant demands of philosophy, is ...