The Persistence of Voice : Instrumental Music and Romantic Orality.

Intro -- The Persistence of Voice: Instrumental Music and Romantic Orality -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Words of Thanks -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Retelling the Fifth -- Absolute or Emancipated Music? -- Part 1: The New Discourses -- Part 2: Romantic Orality -- Part 1: New Discourses about Music -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1 The Music Journals -- Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung (AMZ) -- Friedrich Rochlitz -- Gottfried Wilhelm Fink -- A.B. Marx and the Berliner Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung (BAMZ) -- Revue et Gazette musicale de Paris (RGM) -- Maurice Schlesinger -- Jules Janin -- Hector Berlioz -- Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (NZfM) -- 2 From Poetry to Music Novels -- Gulden/Fiorino, Hildegard von Hohental, Heinrich von Ofterdingen -- Le neveu de Rameau -- Hegel's Spirit -- Ritter Gluck -- 3 Failing Musicians, Failed Education -- The Berglinger Stories -- Miseducation or Music Madness -- "Der Besuch im Irrenhause" (1804) -- "Der arme Spielmann" -- 4 Serialized Novellas -- Hoffmann in Germany -- Hoffmann in France and in Fiction -- Janin's Hoffmann -- Opera Fiction -- Opera in Balzac's "Gambara" and "Massimilla Doni" -- Historical Musicians in Fiction -- 5 Narrating Listeners, Narrating Instruments -- Listeners Narrate -- Instruments Narrate -- Berlioz -- "Harold en Italie" (1834) -- "Roméo et Juliette" (1839) -- Schumann -- Part 2: Romantic Orality -- 6 From Journals to Battles -- Battle Drums at Dresden, Leipzig, and Wellington -- Waltzing in Vienna -- 7 Music Histories: From Gossip to Nationalism -- Anecdotes, Gossip, and Obituaries -- Stendhal - A Biographer? -- Voice and Instruments in History -- Thibaut's Musical Past and Legal Present -- Schumann and Thibaut -- F.-J. Fétis: The Glory of the Low Countries? -- 8 Speech and Song -- Michel Foucault -- Friedrich Schlegel and Franz Bopp.

Wilhelm von Humboldt -- Johann Christoph Adelung -- The Mother's Voice and Pestalozzi -- Der goldne Topf -- 9 Vocal Authenticity? -- Ossianism -- Herder on Ossian -- Forgeries, Opera Adaptations, Plagiarisms, and Copyrights -- Authentic Folk Songs? -- Whose Wunderhorn? -- 10 "Write as You Speak" - in Serbian -- Kopitar, the Networker -- Karadžić, the Voice of the Volk -- Jacob Grimm, the Patron -- Fauriel, the Professor -- Parry and Bartók: Secondary Orality -- 11 Contrafacts from the British Isles -- Scott (Re)turns to Ulster -- Byron on Jordan's Banks -- Schumann as Saul -- 12 Vernacular Operas -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.

Neubauer analyses the importance which nineteenth-century European composers, music critics and intellectuals attached to oral-vernacular speech.

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