Making Words Sing

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. An introduction with no words, with intended words, and untheory
• 2. A love song: Brahms's Von ewiger Liebe
• 3. Boundless opulence: postscripts on Schoenberg's Premonition
• 4. Interlude on peace, laws, flowers, and men flying
• 5. To Amherst via Vienna
• 6. By way of brief conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index.