Status of the blog

This blog is now closed for new content. It began as a place to present multiple examples of analysis of a single composition, the thirteenth number from Schubert's Valses sentimentales, D. 779 (1825). Several related topics emerged soon in the work, ranging from social dance in Vienna to contemporary form theory. I eventually organized a Guide to the blog (link) according to the four main areas given attention:

Topics 1: Analyses of Schubert, Valses sentimentales, n13, Waltz in A Major
Topics 2: Schubert, Playing for Dance, Dance in Vienna 1815-1830
Topics 3: Formal Design and Functions in Music for Social Dance
Topics 4: Responses to Criticism of the Ascending Urlinie

Since publishing the Guide in July 2016, I have made about 15 new posts to the blog, almost all of which have been notices of essays published on Texas ScholarWorks (link to my author page; but see also the December 2022 update below).

A related blog, Ascending Cadence Gestures in Tonal Music, remains active: link.

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Update December 2 2022:

"Essays published on the Texas ScholarWorks platform, 2012-2022" updates earlier indices for all topic areas I have explored over the past decade. Here is the link.  Entries for each essay include title, abstract, and link.

Here is the abstract:

This is a list of essays I have published on this platform in the past decade. Topics include documentation of ascending and upper-register cadence gestures in European and European-influenced musics, studies of the major dominant ninth chord, and formal functions (after Caplin) in music by Mozart and his contemporaries.

An author search on the platform's home page will give two "David Neumeyer"s--they're both me:link 1 to 62 entries; link 2 to 23 entries.

Here are three other blogs I have written and maintained over the years: Ascending Cadence Gestures in Tonal Music; Dance and Dance Music, 1650-1850; On the Dominant Ninth Chord.

Index to Ascending Cadence Gestures: updated

I have published Index to Ascending Cadence Gestures in Essays Published on the Texas ScholarWorks Platform: Update 2020 on the Texas ScholarWorks platform: link.  Here is the abstract:

This file updates the Index published in January 2019. There are two sections. The first is a progress report on the project Ascending Cadence Gestures, A New Historical Survey. The second is an updated list of all compositions with ascending or upper-register cadence gestures, as mentioned in my article "The Ascending Urlinie" (1987), in essays published on the Texas ScholarWorks platform, and in work files prepared for remaining numbers in the new historical survey.