Introduction

Siglind Bruhn

1-8

Music analysis versus musical hermeneutics

Kofi Agawu

9-24

Grounding interpretation

a semiotic framework for musical hermeneutics

Robert S. Hatten

25-42

Musical hermeneutics in the past two decades

some reflections on German and Austrian publications

Gerold W. Gruber

43-59

Encountering mangrove

an essay in signification

Naomi Cumming

60-102

Doubters and believers

case studies in the Geistliche Lieder of Eduard Mörike and Hugo Wolf

Susan Youens

103-146

From signor Contino to Falstaff

operatic connotations in Beethoven's early variations

Steven Moore Whiting

147-163

Decoding the twenty-four preludes of Shostakovich

a hermeneutic approach

Anatole Leikin

165-181

The Rake's (and Stravinsky's) progress

Chandler Carter

183-225

Colors of a mystic fire

light and sound in Scriabin's Prometheus

Danuta Mirka

227-248

A mystic in the cathedral

music, image, and symbol in Andriessen's Hadewijch

Maria A. Harley

249-275

Religious symbolism in the music of Olivier Messiaen

Siglind Bruhn

277-309