The muse as immaculate beloved : Stendhal's 'crystallization' process and images of artistic creation in Rossini and Beethoven
Schumann, Chopin, the fan of Eros, and the beloved's kiss
The muse as temptress and redemptress : Sibelius's early symphonic narratives
Mahler's fifth and sixth symphonies : idyllic fantasies, the sublime, formal mastery, and processes of mourning and reparation
'She dies' : trauma and erotic elegy in Bartók's pre-First World War music
Names, chords, and the 'pale princess' in Debussy's musical language of love
Poulenc's erotics of humour, melancholy, abjection, and redemption
Names, chords and Lulu's portrait as muse
Fetishistic 'inventions on a chord' : Szymanowski, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner, Weill, and Poulenc.
