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.
Author(s): John Neubauer
Series: National Cultivation of Culture, Volume 14
Edition: Hardcover
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 0
The Persistence of Voice: Instrumental Music and Romantic Orality......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents
......Page 7
Preface......Page 11
Words of Thanks......Page 12
List of Abbreviations......Page 13
List of Illustrations......Page 14
Retelling the Fifth......Page 15
Absolute or Emancipated Music?......Page 16
Part 1: The New Discourses......Page 20
Part 2: Romantic Orality......Page 22
Part 1: New Discourses about Music......Page 29
Introduction to Part 1......Page 31
1 The Music Journals......Page 33
Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung (AMZ)......Page 36
Friedrich Rochlitz......Page 37
Gottfried Wilhelm Fink......Page 39
A.B. Marx and the Berliner Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung (BAMZ)......Page 40
Revue et Gazette musicale de Paris (RGM)......Page 48
Maurice Schlesinger......Page 49
Jules Janin......Page 53
Hector Berlioz......Page 54
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (NZfM)......Page 59
2 From Poetry to Music Novels......Page 62
Gulden/Fiorino, Hildegard von Hohental, Heinrich von Ofterdingen......Page 64
Le neveu de Rameau......Page 69
Hegel’s Spirit......Page 72
Ritter Gluck......Page 79
The Berglinger Stories......Page 86
“Der Besuch im Irrenhause” (1804)......Page 91
“Der arme Spielmann”......Page 96
4 Serialized Novellas......Page 103
Hoffmann in Germany......Page 105
Hoffmann in France and in Fiction......Page 107
Janin’s Hoffmann......Page 108
Opera Fiction......Page 110
Opera in Balzac’s “Gambara” and “Massimilla Doni”......Page 111
Historical Musicians in Fiction......Page 113
Listeners Narrate......Page 118
Instruments Narrate......Page 125
Berlioz......Page 130
“Harold en Italie” (1834)......Page 131
“Roméo et Juliette” (1839)......Page 134
Schumann......Page 142
Part 2: Romantic Orality......Page 149
6 From Journals to Battles......Page 151
Battle Drums at Dresden, Leipzig, and Wellington......Page 153
Waltzing in Vienna......Page 158
Anecdotes, Gossip, and Obituaries......Page 160
Stendhal – A Biographer?......Page 163
Voice and Instruments in History......Page 165
Thibaut’s Musical Past and Legal Present......Page 167
Schumann and Thibaut......Page 173
F.-J. Fétis: The Glory of the Low Countries?......Page 180
Michel Foucault......Page 193
Friedrich Schlegel and Franz Bopp......Page 195
Wilhelm von Humboldt......Page 197
Johann Christoph Adelung......Page 201
The Mother’s Voice and Pestalozzi......Page 203
Der goldne Topf......Page 209
Ossianism......Page 212
Herder on Ossian......Page 214
Forgeries, Opera Adaptations, Plagiarisms, and Copyrights......Page 216
Authentic Folk Songs?......Page 218
Whose Wunderhorn?......Page 222
Kopitar, the Networker......Page 227
Karadžić, the Voice of the Volk......Page 229
Jacob Grimm, the Patron......Page 231
Fauriel, the Professor......Page 233
Parry and Bartók: Secondary Orality......Page 236
11 Contrafacts from the British Isles......Page 239
Scott (Re)turns to Ulster......Page 240
Byron on Jordan’s Banks......Page 247
Schumann as Saul......Page 253
12 Vernacular Operas......Page 258
Epilogue......Page 268
References......Page 271
Index......Page 299
