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