Monday, November 26, 2018

Schubert, part 2

This continues last week's post with further examples of the treatment of ^6 and the dominant ninth harmony in Schubert's waltz collections, D365 (1821) and D779 (1825).

D779n30. The ninth first appears in the pickup to bar 5, then is repeated as part of a simple arpeggio (notably without ^7) and is easily heard to resolve as ^6-^5 over I in bar 6.


D365_n12. We hear V9 unequivocally in bar 2, but there is no ^5 in bar 3 (we would have to imagine it). But there is no doubt in bars 6-7, where the figure is repeated an octave higher and the ninth resolves on the strong beat of bar 7. Note that the second inversion of I counts as a harmony for resolution of the ninth -- Schubert was quite fond of dominant pedal points, especially in his early Laendler, and he put all sorts of melodic figures above them.


D779n17. A textbook case of a true V9 harmony resolving directly, with a 6-5 figure over I.


D779n2. Almost identical to the preceding, except that the V9 is more strongly defined.


D365_n30. Like the above, and repeated on the dominant level at the beginning of the second strain.


D779n20. Like the above.