This essay is an introduction to Schenkerian analysis, one model for linear analysis/interpretation of music. This condensed version of an out-of-print manual, co-authored with Susan Tepping, provides the basis of an ...

Cadences are formulaic gestures of closure and temporal articulation in music. Although in the minority, rising melodic figures have a long history in cadences in European music of all genres. This essay documents and ...

This essay charts formal functions (after Caplin) in named menuets written during the second half of the eighteenth century. The repertoire includes menuets by Johann Stamitz, Johann Gottfried Müthel, Franz Joseph Haydn, ...

This is a documentation of ascending cadence gestures in some 260 songs and dances from the British Isles, taken from eighteenth and nineteenth century sources, with some emphasis on collections for practical use published ...

Jeremy Day-O’Connell identifies three treatments of scale degree 6 in the major key through the nineteenth century: (1) classical ^6; (2) pastoral ^6; and (3) non-classical ^6. This essay makes further distinctions within ...

Part 5b of this multi-part essay gathers compositions with ascending and upper-register cadence gestures in European and European-influenced music is given over to examples from Shaker and Mormon hymnals published in the ...

Historical and biographical background and analysis of MacDowell's "To a Wild Rose." Critique of Schenkerian analysis.

Continuation of a study of formal functions (after Caplin) in named menuets by Mozart. A table of data and comprehensive musical examples cover the trios, string quartets, string quintets, quartets and quintets with other ...

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 ...

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 ...