In the past year and a half, I have published eight essays in Parts 4 and 5 of the New Historical Survey series.
Ascending Cadence Gestures, A New Historical Survey, Part 4a1: 1780–1815. Link.
Abstract: This belongs to a multi-part essay series gathering compositions with ascending lines and upper-register cadence gestures in European and European- influenced music. Part 4 covers the period 1780–1860; this section is 1780–1815. Composers include, among others, Beethoven, Doche, Hummel, Mozart, Paisiello, Pecháček, J. A. P. Schulz, and Sterkel. Organ music compiled by Kaspar Ett concludes.
Ascending Cadence Gestures, A New Historical Survey, Part 4b3: Polkas, A Second Supplement. Link.
Abstract: This supplement has additional polkas from the 1840s and 1850s. Composers include, among others, Charles d’Albert, János Gungl, Charles Lenschow, Hans Christian Lumbye, and Johann Strauss, jr. An appendix is a list of all polkas discussed in this and previous essays,
Abstract: This continues Part 4 of a multi-part essay gathering compositions with ascending lines and upper-register cadence gestures in European and European-influenced music. The time period covered in Part 4 is 1780-1860. In Part 4c1 is instrumental music by, among others, Louis Adam, Chopin, Czerny, F. David, Heller, C. Schumann (Wieck), and R. Schumann.
Ascending Cadence Gestures, A New Historical Survey, Part 4c2: Other Dances and Dance-Songs.
Abstract: The time period covered in Part 4 is 1780-1860. Parts 4b, 4b2, and 4b3 focus on the polka, Part 4c1 on music for home or recital after 1820. The present Part 4c2 has items from contemporary anthologies: Hamilton’s Universal Tune-Book (2 vols.), Alexander’s New Scrap Book, and Köhler’s Violin Repository of Dance Music (3 vols.).
Ascending Cadence Gestures, A New Historical Survey, Part 5a: Songs, c1860-1890.
Abstract:
Composers represented in Part 5a of this multi-part essay on ascending and upper-register cadence gestures in European and European-influenced music include, among others, Bizet, Delibes, Fauré, Ganz, Gounod, Lalo, Wolf, and Zarzycki. Song collections include Matvey Bernard’s 50 Children's Songs and James William Elliott’s Mother Goose.
Ascending Cadence Gestures, A New Historical Survey, Part 5b2: Hymnals, Supplement, after 1900.
Abstract:
This is the second supplement to an essay gathering compositions with ascending lines and cadence gestures in hymn collections published in the United States. The two studied here are Alexander’s Gospel Songs and Solos (Philadelphia, 1917) and The Best Gospel Songs and Their Composers (Dalton, GA/Dallas, 1904).
Ascending Cadence Gestures, A New Historical Survey, Part 5b3: Ira D. Sankey, Sacred Songs and Solos
Abstract:
This is the third supplement to an essay gathering compositions with ascending lines and cadence gestures in hymn collections published in the United States. The collection studied here is Ira D. Sankey, Sacred Songs and Solos, New Hymns and Solos, and The Christian Choir (London, 1903).
Abstract:
This is the fourth supplement to an essay gathering compositions with ascending lines and upper-register cadence gestures in hymn collections published in the United States or in London by American compilers and composers. The collections studied here are Ira D. Sankey, James McGranahan, and George C. Stebbins, Gospel Hymns, Nos. 1 to 6 (Cincinnati/Chicago/NewYork, 1895); and Ira D. Sankey, Winnowed Songs for Sunday Schools (Cincinnati/Chicago/NewYork, 1890)
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As an addendum, here are two other newly published essays of interest for the period 1890 and later:
Mediant Progressions: A Sampling of Early 20th-Century Music.
Abstract:
This is a collection of mediant progressions from music published in the first quarter of the 20th century. It is intended primarily for pedagogical use but may have some interest for music history and music analysis. Composers are Marion Bauer, Lili Boulanger, George Butterworth, Claude Debussy, George Gershwin, Charles Griffes, Ivor Gurney, Paul Hindemith, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Jerome Kern, Charles Loeffler, Roger Quilter, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
A Guide to Schenkerian Analysis, File 4: Original (1992) Publication, Chapter 9.
Abstract:
This continuation of the Guide to Schenkerian Analysis series include all the original publication’s Chapter 9, “Analysis of Music before Bach and after Brahms.”
