Table of Contents:
  • Tropes and windows: An outline of music hermeneutics
  • Beethoven's two-movement piano sonatas and the utopia of romantic esthetics
  • Impossible objects: Apparitions, reclining nudes, and Chopin's Prelude in A minor
  • Liszt, Goethe, and the discourse of gender
  • Musical form and fin-de-siècle sexuality
  • "As if a voice were in them": Music, narrative, and deconstruction.