MacDowell, To a Water Lily

Edward MacDowell, "To a Water Lily" from the Woodland Sketches, op. 51 (1895). Like "To a Wild Rose," this is a simple ternary design—and with a prominent role for a dominant ninth harmony in both A and B sections.

The main theme:

Below is the second part of the B section, as in "To a Wild Rose" an expansion of the dominant, though this time with the pedal bass tone literally sounded. In the midst of this, the V9 chord appears here and there, but the beginning and ending sonorities are the dominant seventh (V7).

In the cadence, the dominant ninth harmony is given considerable attention -- boxed -- and functions as the cadential dominant -- see bar 3.