Title: Buelow contradances, rising lines
Link: contradances
Abstract: Pieces with rising cadence gestures in the contradance collections associated with Johan Bülow, court musician in Copenhagen in the late 18th century. This file surveys all seven collections (more than the article “Rising Lines in Tonal Frameworks of Traditional Tonal Music”).
Friday, January 15, 2016
Thursday, January 14, 2016
John Playford, Dancing Master: rising lines: PDF essay link, abstract, keywords
Title: John Playford, Dancing Master: rising lines
Link: Dancing Master
Abstract: Musical examples with rising cadence gestures from John Playford’s Dancing Master (1651). This set was extracted from the article “Rising Lines in Tonal Frameworks of Traditional Tonal Music.”
Link: Dancing Master
Abstract: Musical examples with rising cadence gestures from John Playford’s Dancing Master (1651). This set was extracted from the article “Rising Lines in Tonal Frameworks of Traditional Tonal Music.”
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
On Edward Macdowell's "To a Wild Rose": PDF essay link, abstract, keywords
Title: On Edward Macdowell's "To a Wild Rose"
Link: "To a Wild Rose"
Abstract: Historical and biographical background and analysis of MacDowell's "To a Wild Rose." Critique of Schenkerian analysis.
Link: "To a Wild Rose"
Abstract: Historical and biographical background and analysis of MacDowell's "To a Wild Rose." Critique of Schenkerian analysis.
Cotillon after Schubert, with audio: PDF essay link, abstract, keywords
Title: Cotillon after Schubert, with audio
Link: Cotillon
Abstract: An episode from a cotillon as Franz Schubert might have played it in the 1820s. UT-Austin doctoral student Josh Straub is the pianist in the audio file.
Link: Cotillon
Abstract: An episode from a cotillon as Franz Schubert might have played it in the 1820s. UT-Austin doctoral student Josh Straub is the pianist in the audio file.
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Table of compositions with rising lines: PDF essay link, abstract, keywords
Title: Table of compositions with rising lines
Link: Table of compositions
Abstract: A table that gathers more than 900 examples of musical compositions with cadences that use ascending melodic gestures.
Keywords: Adolphe Adam, Beethoven, Johann Strauss, Schubert, opera, Johan Bülow, Johan Buelow, Donizetti, Fauré, Victor Herbert, Charles Lecocq, Offenbach, John Playford, Richard Rodgers, Rossini, Schmelzer
Link: Table of compositions
Abstract: A table that gathers more than 900 examples of musical compositions with cadences that use ascending melodic gestures.
Keywords: Adolphe Adam, Beethoven, Johann Strauss, Schubert, opera, Johan Bülow, Johan Buelow, Donizetti, Fauré, Victor Herbert, Charles Lecocq, Offenbach, John Playford, Richard Rodgers, Rossini, Schmelzer
Rising lines in the tonal frameworks of traditional tonal compositions: PDF essay link, abstract, keywords
Title: Rising lines in the tonal frameworks of traditional tonal compositions
Link: Rising lines
Abstract: This article supplements, and provides a large amount of additional data for, an article I publisher nearly thirty years ago: "The Ascending Urlinie," Journal of Music Theory 31/2 (1987): 275-303. By Schenker's assertion, an abstract, top-level melody always descends by step to ^1. I demonstrated that at least one rising figure, ^5-^6-^7-^8, was not only possible but could be readily found in the repertory of traditional European tonal music.
Keywords: Heinrich Schenker, William Rothstein, imaginary continuo, Johan Bülow, Johan Buelow, Schubert, Grieg, Beethoven, Franz Boehme, John Playford, waltz, polka, Josef Lanner
Link: Rising lines
Abstract: This article supplements, and provides a large amount of additional data for, an article I publisher nearly thirty years ago: "The Ascending Urlinie," Journal of Music Theory 31/2 (1987): 275-303. By Schenker's assertion, an abstract, top-level melody always descends by step to ^1. I demonstrated that at least one rising figure, ^5-^6-^7-^8, was not only possible but could be readily found in the repertory of traditional European tonal music.
Keywords: Heinrich Schenker, William Rothstein, imaginary continuo, Johan Bülow, Johan Buelow, Schubert, Grieg, Beethoven, Franz Boehme, John Playford, waltz, polka, Josef Lanner
Monday, January 11, 2016
Kingsbury Hymns of Praise: rising lines: PDF essay link, abstract, keywords
Title: Kingsbury Hymns of Praise: rising lines
Link: Hymns of Praise
Abstract: Pieces with rising cadence gestures in Hymns of Praise: For the Church and Sunday School. Compiled by F. G. Kingsbury. Chicago: Hope Publishing Co., c1922. A hymn book from my father's collection. Because of their largely 19th c origins, it seemed reasonable to think that hymns in the evangelistic tradition would be more likely than older tunes to have rising cadence gestures.
Link: Hymns of Praise
Abstract: Pieces with rising cadence gestures in Hymns of Praise: For the Church and Sunday School. Compiled by F. G. Kingsbury. Chicago: Hope Publishing Co., c1922. A hymn book from my father's collection. Because of their largely 19th c origins, it seemed reasonable to think that hymns in the evangelistic tradition would be more likely than older tunes to have rising cadence gestures.
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