Title: Complex upper-voice cadential figures in traditional tonal music
Link: Complex upper voices
Abstract: Harmony and voice-leading are integrated in the hierarchical networks of Schenkerian analyses: the top (most abstract) level of the hierarchy is a fundamental structure that combines a single upper voice and a bass voice in counterpoint. A pattern that occurs with increasing frequency beginning in the later eighteenth century tends to confer equal status on two upper voices, one from ^5, the other from ^3. Analysis using such three-part voice leading in the background often provides richer, more complete, and more musically convincing analyses.
Keywords: Schubert, waltz, music theory, music analysis, Johann Strauss, polka, cover tone, three-part counterpoint, Home Sweet Home, Neils Gade, Strauss, Strauss family, galop, Johan Bülow, Johan Buelow
