Additions to the New Historical Survey series since September 2022

Update 18 December 2024: I have published the last two entries in the New Historical Survey series. Link to Part 4 summary. Link to Part 5 summary.

Update 29 July 2024: I have just published Ascending Cadence Gestures, A New Historical Survey, Parts 2g and 3c: Supplements. Link.

Abstract: Two supplements add to Part 2 (1450-1650) and Part 3 (1650-1780). New items were found through searches since June 2022. Composers include, among others, J. S. Bach, Beringer, Faber, Vincenzo Galilei, Kapsberger, Kerll, Sweelinck, and Wannenmacher. Historical or contemporary anthologies referenced were compiled and edited by Chilesotti, Gilst, and Phalèse.

----------

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,

Ascending Cadence Gestures, A New Historical Survey, Part 4c1: Music for Home, Salon, and Concert. Link.

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).

Ascending Cadence Gestures, A New Historical Survey, Part 5b4: Ira D. Sankey, Gospel Hymns, volumes 1-6

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)

--------

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.”

 

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. 

Update 18 December 2024: I have published the last two entries in the New Historical Survey series. Link to Part 4 summary. Link to Part 5 summary. 

New publications: more on music to 1650 and an index

I have published Ascending Cadence Gestures, A New Historical Survey, Part 2f: to 1650, addendum 2 on the Texas ScholarWorks platform: link.

Here is the abstract:

Part 2f of a multi-part essay gathers additional compositions with ascending and upper-register cadence gestures in European and European-influenced music before 1650. Compositions include instrumental and vocal music by Arcadelt, Banchieri, Cazzati, Hammerschmidt, Marenzio, Quagliati, and Rusca (among others), as well as music from volumes published by the houses of Gardano and Vincenti. The document is in three files, Parts 2f1, 2f2, and 2f3.

I have also published an updated index to Part 2: link.

Description:

This file is a complete index to Part 2. It adds to Part 2d’s index all items in Parts 2e, 2f1, 2f2, and 2f3.

New publication on polkas

I have published the essay Ascending Cadence Gestures, A New Historical Survey, Part 4b: 1780-1860, Polkas on the Texas ScholarWorks platform. Here is the link: polka essay.

Here is the abstract:

This is Part 4b of a multi-part essay gathering compositions with ascending lines and cadence gestures in European and European-influenced music. The repertoire here is polkas published in Europe or the United States between 1840 and 1861. Composers include, among others, Barili, D’Albert, Dodworth, Dressler, Grieg, Grobe, Lumbye, Rziha, Smetana, Johann Strauss, jr., Johann Strauss, sr., Valentini, Viereck, and Zawadzki. An appendix lists polkas mentioned in other publications of mine. A separate file contains data on form design in fifteen published polkas.

Part 4a is the general essay for the time period 1780-1860 -- it will be published at a later date.

New publication: more music before 1650

I have published a new essay on the Texas ScholarWorks platform: link. This includes seventy compositions I found after the Part 2 essay was published in May of this year: link to Parts 2a-d.

Ascending Cadence Gestures, A New Historical Survey, Part 2e: to 1650, addendum

Abstract:

This is Part 2e of a multi-part essay gathering compositions with ascending lines and cadence gestures in European and European-influenced music. Compositions include psalm settings by Le Jeune and Schütz, sacred songs by Henry and William Lawes, music from Felipe Pedrell’s historical anthology of Spanish organ music, keyboard music by Trabaci, instrumental ensemble music by Buonamente, Merula, and Turini.

New historical survey

I have published two sets of files on the Texas ScholarWorks platform for a series Ascending Cadence Gestures, New Historical Survey.  Part 1 is the general introduction: link.  Part 2 surveys European Modal Music (to 1650): link.

The abstract:

This new documentation of traditional European and European-influenced music with ascending lines and cadence gestures includes compositions from the fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The work is gathered in five parts, published separately. Part 1 contains the general introduction and a bibliography. Parts 2a-c cover music to 1650, Part 3 from 1650 to 1780, Part 4 1780 to 1860, and Part 5 1860 to the US copyright barrier, which is currently the end of 1923.        

[Please note: Parts 1-2 are available now. Parts 3-5 will be published as they are completed.] 

Addendum to the historical survey, index, published

I have published an addendum to the historical survey (link to that document) on Texas Scholar Works: link to the new document.

Here is the abstract:

This is an addendum to the essay Ascending Cadence Gestures: A Historical Survey from the 16th to the Early 19th Century (published on Texas Scholar Works, July 2016), consisting of posts since that date to my blog “Ascending Cadence Gestures” (on Google blogspot). This is also an index to musical compositions discussed in essays published or re-published on this platform since 2010, through 03 March 2017.