Cadences are formulaic gestures of closure and temporal articulation in music. Although in the minority, rising melodic figures have a long history in cadences in European music of all genres. This essay documents and analyzes characteristic instances of rising cadential lines from the late 16th century through the 1830s.Almost all of the material for this essay came from posts to this blog over the past several months.
In addition, several of the essays described in this post (admin post) also address historical topics relating to rising lines or cadence gestures. The essays were also published to Texas Scholar Works, most of them in 2014 and 2015.
