Analyses of Schubert Waltz in A Major, D 779n13: PDF essay link, abstract, keywords

Title: Analyses of Schubert Waltz in A Major, D 779n13

Link: Analyses of Waltz in A Major

Abstract: This article gathers a large number of analyses of a single waltz by Franz Schubert: the anomalous A-major waltz, no. 13 in the Valses sentimentales, D 779. The goal is to make more vivid through examples a critical position that came to the fore in music theory during the course of the 1980s: a contrast between a widely accepted “diversity” standard and the closed, ideologically bound habits of descriptive and interpretative practice associated with classical pc-set analysis and Schenkerian analysis.

Keywords: Lerdahl, Caplin, Hook, Guck, Kielian-Gilbert, Schachter, Justin London, Hasty, Richard Cohn, Meyer, Wallace Berry, Fink, Lochead, Schumann, Ravel, Liszt, proto-background, Edward T. Cone

Buelow contradances, rising lines: PDF essay link, abstract, keywords

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”).

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.”

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.

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.

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

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