Introduction. The muse as Eros and masculine creative anxiety ; Locating musical evocations of the erotic muse ; Eroticism, imagination, and fantasy ; Erotic fantasy in Liszt, Wagner, and Scriabin : an interpretive exemplar
The muse as immaculate beloved : Stendhal's 'crystallization' process and listening to 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.
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The muse as Eros : music, erotic fantasy, and male creativity in the romantic and modern imagination by Stephen C. Downes. ISBN 0754635708. Published by Ashgate in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
