Essays on the synthesis of the musical and literary arts in German Romanticism.

Iniquitous Innocence: The Ambiguity of Music in the Phantasien über die Kunst (1799) - Richard LittlejohnsThe Cosmic-Symphonic: Novalis, Music, and Universal Discourse"Das Hören ist ein Sehen von und durch innen": Johann Wilhelm Ritter and the Aesthetics of Music - Thomas StraessleMusic and Non-Verbal Reason in E. T. A. Hoffmann - Jeanne RiouPerceptions of Goethe and Schubert - Lorraine ByrneGoethe's Egmont, Beethoven's Egmont - David HillA Tale of Two Fausts: An Examination of Reciprocal Influence in the Responses of Liszt and Wagner to Goethe's FaustFaust - David LarkinMusical Gypsies and Anti-Classical Aesthetics: The Romantic Reception of Goethe's Mignon Character in Brentano's Die mehrenen Wehmüller und ungarische GeschichterDie mehrenen Wehmüller und ungarische Geschichter - Stefanie BachStages of Imagination in Music and Literature: E. T. A. Hoffmann and Hector Berlioz - Andrea HuebenerThe Voice from the Hereafter: E. T. A. Hoffmann's Ideal of Sound and Its Realization in Early Twentieth-Century Electronic MusicElectronic Music - Werner Keil"My song the midnight raven has outwing'd": Schubert's "Der Wanderer," D. 649 - James ParsonsThe Notion of Personae in Brahm's "Bitteres zu sagen denkst du": op. 32, no. 7: A literary key to musical performance? - Natasha LogesRobert Schneider's Schlafes Bruder -- a Neo-Romantic Musikernovelle? - Juergen Barkhoff