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17 October 2014: This blog, dormant since March 2014, is being revived. Some posts about dance musics in the period 1650-1850 on my original blog Hearing Schubert D779n13 will be moved here. Posts relating to William Caplin's form theory and its literature will be placed here, as well. A new blog, Ascending Cadence Gestures in Tonal Music, will accommodate other posts concerned with those particular figures but in music not belonging to Schubert's generation. There will inevitably be some overlap: dances and dance songs with those figures will be discussed there, too, unless the only point under consideration is their formal design.

[NOTE: links updated on 6-09-16; see below]    Certain other files available through links are no longer accessible because the server was decommissioned. I am currently working on a solution to make available those PDF documents containing material I have either put together for class use or otherwise gathered from the Hearing Schubert D779n13 blog:

1. Schubert, Dance, and Dancing in Vienna, 1815-1840.  Link to PDF essay.   Additional file: A cotillon in the manner of Schubert (score and audio): Link to Cotillon.
2. Formal functions for phrase, theme, and small forms, following William E. Caplin, Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven (Oxford University Press, 1998), summary and examples with related information and data on dance musics and their performance in the same period.     Link to PDF essay.