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

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:National Cultivation of Culture 14.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of 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.