Two pieces by Vincent Lübeck the Elder

Vincent Lübeck enjoyed not only a long life (1654-1740) but also a high reputation as a composer and organist. The small number of pieces that survive are mainly fugues and chorale preludes, as one might expect, but two small pieces have been verified as his by Dr. Wolfram Syré in an edition published in 2002. Because the edition is under copyright, I am reproducing only a few short fragments of each, with analytical annotations.

The March is a small binary form in 16 bars, with a cadence to the dominant at the end of the first strain. The beginning of the second strain puts attention on C5 (circled), and the ending seems to confirm the significance of that note with a covering C6 (circled) and a line rising through the cadence.

The menuet is likewise in a small binary form, 8 + 16 bars. In the second strain, a PAC on vi (D minor) falls midway. Without backing this with more notational evidence, I will claim that the ^8 (as F5) apparent in the first bar continues to hold sway abstractly throughout, and thus the quick passage through the octave approaching the end (circled notes and slur) generates a neighbor-note cadence figure, ^8-^9-^7-^8.