Here is the abstract:
Ascending cadence gestures are common in the repertoire of the operetta and in some early opéras comiques. Composers altered traditional dramatic cadence figures beginning in the mid-1830s, but it was multiple instances in Jacques Offenbach’s one- act stage pieces in the mid-1850s that popularized them and turned them into clichés of the musical theater. Les deux aveugles (1855) was the composer’s first undisputed success. Offenbach returned to the one-act format much later in his career with Pomme d’Api (1873). An afterword provides a table of theatrical cadences that bring attention to the upper register.
