Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Musical Examples vii
4. Foreword Daniel Albright: Collector, Critic, Fancier ix
5. 1 Thesis 1
6. 2 Wagner’s Names 5
7. 3 Maeterlinck’s Modernisms: Debussy and Dukas 50
8. 4 Britten’s Dismantlings: Les illuminations and the War Requiem 116
9. 5 Schoenberg’s Shatterings 145
10. 6 Stravinsky’s Nightingales 198
11. Epilogue 267
12. Acknowledgments 269
13. Notes 271
14. Index 283