Wordless Rhetoric…ought to be on the bookshelf of every music scholar interested in musical rhetoric, form, and expression.
   --Daniel Harrison, Current Musicology

This book should be required reading, not only for listeners and students but for conductors as well…In Brinkmann's hands, [the Second Symphony] takes its rightful place in intellectual and social history.
   --Leon Botstein, Times Literary Supplement

Mark Evan Bonds is Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina.

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• Wordless Rhetoric: Musical Form and the Metaphor of the Oration