Updated list of titles

"Essays published on the Texas ScholarWorks platform, 2012-2022" updates earlier indices for all topic areas I have explored over the past decade. Here is the link.  Entries for each essay include title, abstract, and link.

Here is the abstract:

This is a list of essays I have published on this platform in the past decade. Topics include documentation of ascending and upper-register cadence gestures in European and European-influenced musics, studies of the major dominant ninth chord, and formal functions (after Caplin) in music by Mozart and his contemporaries.

 An author search on the platform's home page will give two "David Neumeyer"s--they're both me:link 1 to 62 entries; link 2 to 23 entries.

Here are three other blogs I have written and maintained over the years: On the Dominant Ninth Chord; Hearing Schubert D779n13; Dance and Dance Music, 1650-1850. 

New Publications in the New Historical Survey series

 I have published the following on the Texas ScholarWorks platform:

Ascending Cadence Gestures, A New Historical Survey, Part 3a: 1650-1700

Part 3a of a multi-part essay gathers compositions with ascending lines and upper-register cadence gestures in European music from 1650 to 1700. Composers in Part 3a1 are Cazzati, Falconieri, Legrenzi, Marini, Merula, and Uccellini; in Part 3a2, Thomas Cross, John Gamble, John Jenkins, Henry Lawes, and Christopher Simpson; in Part 3a3, Aux-Cousteaux, Berthod, Cazzati, Legrenzi, Lully, and Macé; and in Part 3a4, Boyvin, Louis Couperin, Kusser, LeBègue, Mayr, Nivers, and Vitali.

Ascending Cadence Gestures, A New Historical Survey, Part 3b: 1700-1780

This is Part 3b of a multi-part essay gathering compositions with ascending lines and cadence gestures in European and European-influenced music. Composers include, among others, Archimbaud, J. S. Bach, Boismortier, Fux, Kirnberger, Le Roux, Mouret, Mozart, Schulz, Tartini, and Telemann. A publisher included is Gerhard Fredrik Witvogel. 

Ascending Cadence Gestures, A New Historical Survey, Part 5b1: Hymnals by Augustus and Frederick Fillmore, 1847-1893 

Part 5b1 is a supplement to Part 5b of the New Historical Survey. Where Part 5b offered examples from Shaker and Mormon hymnals published between 1893 and 1909, Part 5b1 covers six earlier hymnals compiled and partly written by the Fillmores and published in Cincinnati between 1847 and 1893. The earliest of them, The Christian Psalmist, was co-authored by Silas W. Leonard and Augustus D. Fillmore; it combined standard notation with two other formats and was one of the commercially most successful American hymnals of the 19th century. 

Charles K. Harris, "After the Ball" and "The Last Farewell"

I have published the essay Text and Music in Two Songs by Charles K. Harris on the Texas ScholarWorks platform. Here is the link: Harris.

Here is the abstract:

 In 2021, SMT-V, an online journal of the Society for Music Theory, published a video essay by Michael Buchler, Professor of Music in the College of Music, Florida State University. It’s titled "I Don’t Care if I Never Get Back: Optimism and Ascent in 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game'.” In this essay I examine similar songs from the era: Charles K. Harris, “After the Ball” (1892) and “The Last Farewell” (1903).

See also the post on this blog: "Michael Buchler on 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame'." Link.

Index to Ascending Cadence Gestures

This post was updated on March 20, 2024 to point to a subsequent updated index published in December 2022: post.

See also this post for additional titles published in 2023-2024: post.