Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- List of illustrations (page viii)
- Acknowledgements (page x)
- A note on presentation (page xii)
- List of abbreviations (page xiii)
- Introduction (page 1)
- 1 German melody (page 12)
- 2 Melodielehre? (page 69)
- 3 Wagner in the melodic workshop (page 130)
- Excursus: Bellini's Sinnlichkeit and Wagner's Italy (page 182)
- 4 Hearing voices: Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient and the Lohengrin "recitatives" (page 198)
- 5 Vowels, voices, and "original truth" (page 280)
- 6 Wagner's material expression (page 330)
- Epilogue: Turning off the lights (page 393)
- Appendix A: Books on language in Wagner's Dresden library (page 399)
- Appendix B: Books on language in Wagner's Wahnfried library (page 402)
- Select bibliography (page 408)
- Index (page 439)