Ackowledgements
Part I
1. "The Wondrous Transformation of Thought into Sound": Some Preliminary Reflections on Musical Meaning in Brahms, Heather Platt and Peter H. Smith
2. The Learned Self: Artifice in Brahms's Late Intermezzi, Steven Rings
Part II
3. "Alte Liebe" and the Birds of Spring: Text, Music, and Image in Max Klinger's Brahms Fantasy, Yonatan Malin
4. Brahms's Maidens in their Cultural Context, Heather Platt
5. Ancient Tragedy and Anachronism: Form as Expression in Brahms's Gesang der Parzen, Margaret Notley
Part III
6. Sequence as Culmination in the Chamber Music of Brahms, Ryan McClelland
7. 'Phantasia Subitanea': Temporal Caprice in Brahms's Op. 116, nos. 1 and 7, Frank Samarotto
8. Monumentality and Formal Processes in the First Movement of Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, op. 15, James Hepokoski
9. The Drama of Tonal Pairing in Chamber Music of Schumann and Brahms, Peter H. Smith
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
