Seventeenth-Century Germany and Austria: Ascending Cadence Gestures

The seventeenth century in Europe was a particularly rich time for experimentation in musical performance, improvisation, and composition. This essay, meant as an addendum to Ascending Cadence Gestures: A Historical Survey from the 16th to the Early 19th Century (published on Texas Scholar Works, July 2016), documents and analyzes characteristic instances of rising cadential lines in music by composers active in Germanophone countries--and, as it happens, particularly in the cities of Hamburg in the north and Vienna in the south.