The persistence of voice : instrumental music and romantic orality / by John Neubauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neubauer, John, 1933-2015.

Series:

National Cultivation of Culture 14.

National cultivation of culture ; v. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--19th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Music and language--History--19th century.

Music and language.

Musical criticism--History--19th century.

Musical criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

This work, completed by Neubauer on the very eve of his death in 2015, complements both his benchmark The Emancipation of Music from Language (Yale UP, 1986) and his History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe (John Benjamins, 2004-10). It thematizes Romantic interest in oral speech, its poetical usage in music and musical discourse, and its political usage in the national-communitarian cult of the vernacular community. Subtly and with great erudition, Neubauer traces in different genres and fields the many transnational cross-currents around Romantic cultural criticism and writings on music and language, offering not only fresh analytical insights but also a rich account of the interaction between Romantic aesthetics and cultural nationalism.

Contents:

Introduction

New Discourses about Music

The Music Journals

From Poetry to Music Novels

Failing Musicians, Failed Education

Serialized Novellas

Narrating Listeners, Narrating Instruments

Romantic Orality

From Journals to Battles

Music Histories: From Gossip to Nationalism

Speech and Song

Vocal Authenticity?

“Write as You Speak” – in Serbian

Contrafacts from the British Isles

Vernacular Operas

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-34336-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004343368 DOI