Introduction Part I — MAPPING THE TERRITORIAL BOUNDARIES I-1 Music and the Sister ArtsOF MUSICAL EKPHRASIS I-2 Variations of Ekphrastic Stance I-3 Literature and Painting Imitating Music Part II — FROM WORD TO SOUND: II-1 Maeterlinck’s Death Drama in Two Musical DepictionsNON-VOCAL MUSIC RESPONDS TO A LITERARY TEXT II-2 Schoenberg’s Musical Representations of Fateful Love Triangles II-3 Elliott Carter’s American Narratives PART III — FROM IMAGE TO SOUND: III-1 A Twentieth-Century Composer’s Quattroceno TriptychMUSIC ON WORKS OF VISUAL ART III-2 Music for Blessings in Stained Glass III-3 The Twittering Machine, Sound Symbol of Modernity PART IV — THE FAUN AND THE VIRGIN, THE SAINT AND THE REAPER: IV-1 Two Pictorial Cycles and Their Mediated Paths Towards MusicMULTI-TIERED TRANSMEDIALIZATIONS IV-2 Two Mallarmé Poems and Their Way through Music to Dance PART V — MUSICAL RE-PRESENTATIONS OF VISUAL AND VERBAL WORKS OF ART Appendix Bibliography Lists of Plates, Figures, and Musical Examples; Index |