The Persistence of Voice: Instrumental Music and Romantic Orality

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


About the Author


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).