Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Reanimating Musical Organicism 15
5. 2. Formalism’s Flower 41
6. 3. Schopenhauer’s Musical Ecology 66
7. 4. The Floral Poetics of Schumann’s Blumenstück, op. 19 85
8. 5. Music between Reaction and Response 112
9. 6. On Not Letting Sounds Be Themselves 132
10. Acknowledgments 155
11. Notes 157
12. Bibliography 181
13. Index 197