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Searched for phrasing (234 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1915-05-21

    ... his departure, his previously fervent affection for me, which even expressed itself in idolizing verses, was discharged in that vulgar phrase "thus my high esteem," which he was evidently accustomed to use with his clients on a daily, hourly basis ...

  • Diary entry for 1918-01-22

    ... took his leave by saying that he would have to wait until he won a first prize — a turn of phrase well-suited to a rich boy whose very air of deception gives him away. ...

  • Diary entry for 1918-04-02

    ... purpose of swindling and brought on the market. Shoe soles for 30 Kronen! Hindenburg sends a telegram to Vice-President Paasche, expresses the wish of the army to have offered the blood sacrifice "not for nothing "; this phrase alone betrays the total ...

  • Diary entry for 1919-08-28

    ... Mahlzeit mit den Worten wünscht: Hoffentlich kriegen Sie etwas Gutes; (sancta simplizitas:) sancta simplicitas: "holy simplicity", a phrase often used ironically. erzählt, daß er nach Salzburg reise, unter anderem auch in Sachen unserer ...

  • Diary entry for 1925-02-24

    ... contract and express my happiness about our association in a letter. To Vrieslander (postcard): I report on the contract and thank him for all his efforts. Dictation of the article "Abolish the Phrasing Slur" started in the evening. ...

  • Diary entry for 1925-03-21

    ... intricate phrase constructions in a most natural manner without ever showing the least bit of difficulty or craftiness. The honesty of the melody appears to originate in the honesty of the artistic nature, which also corresponds to an unaffected performance ...

  • Diary entry for 1926-11-16

    ... arias suffered from a lack of attention to the dynamics and phrasing on the part of the soloists who took part. Today this is certainly an insoluble problem, as the hurriedness of the music industry makes it impossible for a conductor to arrive at an ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-02-28

    ... attention; Stadler also speaks of the Dutch hatred of the Germans. Radio, 9 to 9:45, Manin – he plays very beautifully, merely exaggerates the tenderness and the lingering on the first note of a phrase; as he is unable to distinguish among these first notes ...

  • Diary entry for 1931-08-07

    ... :45: Oppel takes afternoon snack in our room; then tuition and conversation until 7:10 – frightfully tiring, because it amounts to nothing; he wants to write about me as a "creator of language," to collect my coinage of phrases and terms, perhaps write about ...

  • ... them at the end of May. The two Scarlatti sonata items were started in early April and completed in late May. The Op. 110 piece took only seven days, April 28 to May 4, 1925. The text-critical Abolish the Phrasing Slur was written between late February ...

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