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Searched for foreground (36 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1931-02-19

    ... appears to be the opposite of what we find in the final version of Free Composition, where background, middleground, and foreground are discussed separately; within these, examples of the various prolongation techniques are treated in turn. Thus, for ...

  • Diary entry for 1932-07-08

    ... Composition is completed up to "Foreground". Afternoon snack at the Café Stern, purchases. I dictate the letter to Deutsch, Lie-Liechen writes it out at night. ...

  • ... Wörtchen darüber verlauten! Herzlichste Wünsche u. Grüße von uns Beiden Ihnen u. Frl. Boy. Ihr H Schenker 24. 11. 32 Ich arbeite fieberhaft an „fr. S.,“ gelange bald zum Vdg.Part III of Der freie Satz is entitled "Vordergund" ("Foreground"). It covers pp ...

  • Diary entry for 1932-05-02

    ... Mannes School, 1932) comprises one leaf for the background and middleground, three for the foreground. Das Telefon wird installirt: 2–¼5h! An Rothberger (K.): Engels Adresse? Gegen ¾5h stürzt Brünauer in mein Zimmer: er müsse in Geschäften gleich wieder ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-03-17

    ... -Abend mit Frau Ulanowsky: Klavierstücke u. Lieder. 17, Sunday, fair weather, 0°. Ate at 11 o'clock, walked to the concert. Conversation with Weisse, he says of Furtwängler: "and yet only a performer concerned with the foreground and effects." The first ...

  • Diary entry for 1931-04-20

    ... "Foreground" (Octave, Fifth, Fourth) for Free Composition. ...

  • Diary entry for 1931-12-07

    ... of tuition. I need counterpoint for the middleground and its genuine intervals, without which the foreground cannot be understood! Schools, pupils, through incompetence, no longer want that today – what should I say in reply? Work on the next sections ...

  • Diary entry for 1933-09-01

    ... Diminution fertig – nun zum Text der letzten drei Kapitel in Der freie Satz. In its final form, the chapter on "Diminution" in Part III, section 3 ("Specific Foreground Events") is followed by four more chapters; these in turn are followed by two more ...

  • Diary entry for 1924-12-16

    ... them out lyrically; some even sped up too much! I fear Furtwängler will now generally play faster than is called for, failing to recognize what I call Urlinie. He believes he can achieve that by crowding together the contents, hence the foreground, and ...

  • 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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