The Persistence of Voice: Instrumental Music and Romantic Orality

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34335-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 160 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: National Cultivation of Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neubauer, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Romantik (ca. 1830-1900)
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 goldene Topf

9 Vocal Authenticity?
Ossianism
Herder on Ossian
Forgeries, Opera Adapations, Plagiarisms, and Copyrights
Authentic Folk Songs?
Whose Wunderhorn?

10 “Write as You Speak” – in Serbian
Kopitar, the Networker
Karadžic, 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

Über Autor(innen)

John Neubauer (Budapest 1933 – Amsterdam 2015) was Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Amsterdam. Among his works are The Emancipation of Music from Language (1986), The Fin-de-siècle Culture of Adolescence (1992) and the four-volume History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe (4 vols., ed. w. M. Cornis-Pope, 2004-10).