Tabla de Contenidos: “…Tropes and windows : an outline of musical hermeneutics -- Decadence and desire : the Wilhelm Meister songs of Wolf and Schubert -- Dangerous liaisons : the literary text in musical criticism -- Music criticism and the postmodernist turn : in contrary motion with Gary Tomlinson -- Charging the canons -- The strange case of Beethoven's Coriolan : romantic aesthetics, modern subjectivity, and the cult of Shakespeare -- The harem threshold : Turkish music and Greek love in Beethoven's Ode to joy -- Primitive encounters : Beethoven's Tempest sonata, musical meaning, and enlightenment anthropology -- Tolstoy's Beethoven, Beethoven's Tolstoy : the Kreutzer sonata -- Like falling leaves : the erotics of mourning in four Drum-taps settings -- Chopin at the funeral : episodes in the history of modern death -- Recognizing Schubert : musical subjectivity, cultural change, and Jane Campion's The portrait of a lady -- Haydn's chaos, Schenker's order; or, musical meaning and musical analysis : can they mix? …”