The quest for voice
Subtitle: on music, politics, and the limits of philosophy : the 1997 Ernest Bloch lectures
By: Lydia Goehr.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford [U.K.]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Wagner, Richard, -- 1813-1883 -- Aesthetics.; Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.; Romanticism in music.; Music -- 19th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.; Music -- Performance.; Music and state -- Germany.
Notes: Based in part on lectures given by the author at the University of California, Berkeley; some of the material in chapters 1, 4, and 5 previously published in altered form.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Secrecy and silence : an introduction to music and its metaphor; title: Die Meistersinger : Wagner's exemplary lesson; title: The quest for voice : resituating musical autonomy; title: Conflicting ideals of performance perfection in an imperfect practice; title: Music and musicians in exile : the romantic legacy of a double life.