Gallery of Simple Examples, volume 2

I have posted a sequel to the gallery of simple examples (link to volume 1). The title is A Gallery of Simple Examples of Extended Rising Melodic Shapes, Volume 2: link to volume 2.

Here is the abstract:

This second installment of direct, cleanly formed rising lines offers examples from a variety of sources, ranging from a short early seventeenth century choral piece to Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony, and from Scottish fiddle tunes to Victor Herbert operettas.

Here is a combined table of contents for the two volumes, arranged chronologically and with the volume number indicated:

Praetorius, three-voice motet "Preis sei Gott in der Höhe"       -- vol. 2
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Partita ex Vienna, Courante      -- vol. 2
Böhm, Suite in F minor, Courante       -- vol. 1
Anon., Chelsea Stage    -- vol. 2
Anon., The Duchess of Gordon     -- vol. 2
Anon., The Kerry Jig       -- vol. 2
Anon., The Nabob        -- vol. 2
Anon., The Runaway Bride   -- vol. 2
Anon., Shepherds Jigg   -- vol. 2
Anon., Yankey Doodle      -- vol. 2
Mozart, 12 Menuets, K176n1       -- vol. 1
Haydn, String Quartet in D Major, Op76n2, III       -- vol. 1
Haydn, Symphony no. 86, III      -- vol. 1
Beethoven, 12 German Dances, WoO8n1       -- vol. 1
Hummel, from 6 German Dances & 12 Trios, op. 16      -- vol. 2
Schubert, Wiener-Damen-Ländler, D734n15       -- vol. 1
Schubert, Valses sentimentales, D779n13       -- vol. 1
Schubert, Ländler, D814n4       -- vol. 1
Schubert, Deutscher Tanz, D769n1       -- vol. 1
Schubert, Grazer Walzer, D924n9       -- vol. 1
Johann Strauss, sr., “Champagner Galop,” Op. 8      -- vol. 2
Johann Strauss, sr., Das Leben ein Tanz, oder Der Tanz ein Leben!, Op.49       -- vol. 1
Johann Strauss, sr., Exotische Pflanzen, Op.109       -- vol. 1
Johann Strauss, jr., Künstlerleben, op. 316       -- vol. 1
Brahms, “Über die See”       -- vol. 1
Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker, March       -- vol. 1
Herbert,  Sweethearts, n7: "Jeannette and Her Little Wooden Shoes"      -- vol. 2
Herbert, Naughty Marietta, n17: "The Sweet Bye and Bye"      -- vol. 2
Herbert, Babette, n23: Finale III      -- vol. 2
Prokofiev, Classical Symphony, Gavotte      -- vol. 2
Gershwin, Shall We Dance, "Slap That Bass"      -- vol. 2
Waxman, Rebecca, "Hotel Lobby Waltz”      -- vol. 2 

Post-Schubert Composition list

In posts last month, I introduced examples by Schubert from my PDF essay Scale Degree ^6 in the 19th Century: Ländler and Waltzes from Schubert to Herbert, published on Texas Scholar Works: link to the essay; link to the first Schubert post.

Here is a list of the compositions discussed in the final section of Part I of the essay and in Part II (“After 1850”).

Josef Lanner, “Die 28er” Ländler, op. 20
Josef Lanner, Altenburger-Ländler, op. 40
Johann Strauss, sr., Feldbleamel’n (im Ländler-Style), op. 213
Brahms, Walzer, op. 39
Brahms, Liebeslieder-Walzer, op. 52
Johann Strauss, jr., An der schönen blauen Donau
Johann Strauss, jr., Künstlerleben
Johann Strauss, jr., Geschichten aus der Wiener-Wald
Josef Strauss, Mein Lebenslauf ist Lieb’ und Lust, op. 263
Eduard Strauss, Das Leben ist doch schön, op. 150
Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker, Waltz of the Flowers
Fauré, Dolly-Suite, Kitty-Valse
Chaminade, Valse-Caprice, op. 33
Debussy, Valse romantique
Victor Herbert, The Only Girl (1914), Overture