D 814 is a set of four ländler for piano four-hands. A solo version of the first dance also exists (NB: this is by Schubert; Brahms transcribed the other dances in D 814). Here a small-scale ascent growing out of a ^5-^6 neighbor figure in the first strain is magnified considerably in the second strain.
A ninth leap can be a dramatic generating event on its own: see bar 5 in Valses sentimentales, D 799, n16. This one inspires other leaps, but the only return to scale degree ^6 comes as a neighbor note over I6/4 (see bar 14). This time Schubert takes the expressive leap to the highest note on the pianoforte, F7 (in bar 15).
As its dynamic markings and large chords suggest, D 779n16 is a German dance, not a ländler. By contrast, D 779, n18 is one of the simplest ländler in the set: the violinistic melody is not elaborate (at least in the first strain), and the bass-afterbeat pattern of the left hand follows the most stereotyped ländler bass I-I-V-V / I-I-V-I. Our point of interest will be the second strain, but in the first strain two nicely expressive (but, again, simple) instances of ^6 appear: an off-beat leap in bar 3 (circled) and a filling-out or thickening of ^4 in bar 7. The role of that ^4 is clearer in the lower system, where I have pulled out the longer and metrically accented pitches, which describe a double neighbor-note figure around ^3.
