Listening to reason : culture, subjectivity, and nineteenth-century music

Staging subjectivity in the Mozart/Da Ponte operas. Staging subjectivity ; Don Giovanni and the scene of patricide ; Le nozze di Figaro and the scene of emancipation ; Così fan tutte and the scene of instruction

Beethoven: heroism and abstraction. Heroism and abstraction ; Heroism and anxiety ; Fidelio ; The symphony no. 9

Canny and uncanny histories in Biedermeier music. Biedermeier music ; Mendelssohn's canny histories ; Schumann's uncanny histories ; Back to Schubert

The family romances of music drama. The family romances of music drama ; Siegmund's death ; Subjectivity and identity

The voice of the people at the moment of the nation. People and nations ; Brahms, 1868 ; Verdi, 1874 ; Dvořák, 1890

Minor modernisms. Music trauma, or, is there life after Wagner? ; Three fins-de-siècle ; The road into the open

The musical unconscious