Foreword Preface Acknowledgments

1 Song [1984] 2 The Schubert Lied: Romantic Form and Romantic Consciousness [1986] 3 Performance and Social Meaning in the Lied: Schubert's Erster Verlust [1994] 4 Syringa: John Ashbery and Elliott Carter [1984; 1980] 5 Decadence and Desire: The Wilhelm Meister Songs of Wolf and Schubert [1987] 6 Hugo Wolf: Subjectivity in the Fin-de-Siècle Lied [1996/2009] 7 Recognizing Schubert: Musical Subjectivity, Cultural Change, and Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady [2002] 8 Little Pearl Teardrops: Schubert, Schumann, and the Tremulous Body of Romantic Song [2002] 9 The Harem Threshold: Turkish Music and Greek Love in Beethoven's Ode to Joy [1998] 10 Like Falling Leaves: The Erotics of Mourning in Four Drum-Taps Settings [2002] 11 Murderous Women in German Opera [2008] 12 Longindyingcall: of Music, Modernity, and the Sirens [2006] 13 Recalling the Sublime: The Logic of Creation in Haydn's Creation [2009] 14 Wagner's Gold Standard: Tannhäuser and the General Equivalent [2010] 15 The Talking Wound and the Foolish Question: Symbolization in Parsifal [2006] 16 The Great American Opera: Klinghoffer , Streetcar, and the Exception [2007] 17 Modern Madrigalisms: Elliott Carter and the Aesthetics of Art Song [2014] Appendix: Unsung Words and Music

18 The Strange Case of Beethoven's Coriolan : Romantic Aesthetics, Modern Subjectivity, and the Cult of Shakespeare 19 Tolstoy's Beethoven, Beethoven's Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata [1997/2006] 20 Subjectivity Unbound: Music, Language, Culture [2003/2012]