Essay on Waltzes by Joseph Lanner Published

I have published an essay titled Ascending Cadence Gestures in Waltzes by Joseph Lanner on the Texas Scholar Works platform: link. Here is the abstract:

Rising melodic figures have a long history in cadences in European music of all genres. This essay documents and analyzes examples from an especially influential repertoire of social dance music, the Viennese waltz in the first half of the 19th century. The two most important figures were both violinists, orchestra leaders, and composers: Josef Lanner (d. 1843) and Johann Strauss, sr. (d. 1849). Lanner is the focus of this essay, with waltz sets ranging from prior to 1827 through 1842.

In addition to the analyses of waltzes from nine sets by Lanner, the reader may be interested in the second section of the introduction, "The Violin and the Cadence: On the Complexity of the Relations of Melodic Figures and Voice-leading" and in the postscript "on the period, double period, AB designs, and quadruple periods."