Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Introduction xi
6. German Romantic Music Aesthetics
7. Iniquitous Innocence: The Ambiguity of Music in the Phantasien über die Kunst (1799) 1
8. The Cosmic-Symphonic: Novalis, Music, and Universal Discourse 13
9. “Das Hören ist ein Sehen von und durch innen”: Johann Wilhelm Ritter and the Aesthetics of Music 27
10. Music and Non-Verbal Reason in E. T. A. Hoffmann 43
11. Responses to Goethe
12. Perceptions of Goethe and Schubert 59
13. Goethe’s Egmont, Beethoven’s Egmont 75
14. A Tale of Two Fausts: An Examination of Reciprocal Influence in the Responses of Liszt and Wagner to Goethe’s Faust 87
15. Musical Gypsies and Anti-Classical Aesthetics: The Romantic Reception of Goethe’s Mignon Character in Brentano’s Die mehreren Wehmüller und ungarische Nationalgesichter 105
16. Sounds of Hoffmann
17. Stages of Imagination in Music and Literature: E. T. A. Hoffmann and Hector Berlioz 123
18. The Voice from the Hereafter: E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Ideal of Sound and Its Realization in Early Twentieth-Century Electronic Music 143
19. Lieder
20. “My song the midnight raven has outwing’d”: Schubert’s “Der Wanderer,” D. 649 165
21. The Notion of Personae in Brahms’s “Bitteres zu sagen denkst du,” op. 32, no. 7: A Literary Key to Musical Performance? 183
22. Romantic Overtones in Contemporary German Literature
23. Robert Schneider’s Schlafes Bruder — A Neo-Romantic Musikernovelle? 203
24. Notes on the Contributors 217
25. Notes on the Editors 221
26. Index 223