Section One Music Literature History Architecture Staging Painting Decoration: Within a Symphony of the Arts. - Paradox and Metaphor: An Integrity of the Arts. - Aesthetic Symbiosis and Spiritual Quest: Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece in Hindemith's Opera Mathis der Maler. - The Ambiguity of Baroque Enchantment: Operatic Mise en Abyme. - The Musicalization of Prose: Prolegomena to the Experience of Literature in Musical Form. - Calderón's Dramatic Technique: The Orchestration of the Arts From Drama to Opera. - Baroque Splendor: Vierzehnheiligen Church and Bach's B-Minor Mass. - Section Two Sharing in Creative and Cosmic Synergies. - Orchestration of the Universe: Reflections on Tagore's Creativity. - The Synergies of Mind and Muse: Reflections on Nineteenth-Century Thought and A Comparative Analysis of Dante Gabriel Rosetti's Poem and Painting The Blessed Damozel and Claude Debussy's La Demoiselle Elue. - The Interdependency of Literature Architecture Theater and Music as an Expression of Baroque Absolutism at the Hapsburg Court in Vienna. - Literature and Architecture as a Metaphor of Grandeur and Decadence. - Louis Sullivan: The Life-Enhancing Symbiosis of Music Language Architecture and Ornament. - An Orchestration of the Arts in Wallace Stevens' Peter Quince at the Clavier. - Section Three the Symbiosis and the Interaction of the Arts. - The Harmonic Conceit: Music Nature and Mind in Wordworth's Prelude. - Histoire de L'Aveugle: Matiérisme's Critique of Vision. - Images of Water and the Sea in Tristan L'Hermite's La Mer and in Painting. - Section Four Arts Interacting with Our Perception of Nature and Human Life. - Fire and Ice: Le Vrai Magique. - W. E. B. du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk as an Example of theTragic. - The Blending of Natures and the Perception of the Real. - The Symbiosis and the Interaction of the Arts: Cesário Verde Poet / Painter. - This is Mine and I Can Hold It: Edna St. Vincent Millay and her Music. - Section Five The Poetic Inter-Reflection of the Arts. - The Terpsichorean Poem. - A Study in Nostalgia: The Orchestration of Life in Façade. The Edith SitwellWilliam Walton Musico-Poetic Collaboration. - Interreflection of Complementary Expressive Means in Combined-Media Art Performances. - The Orchestration of the Arts in Leila Sebbar's Shérazade 17 ans brune frisée les yeux verts. - Beauty and the Dialogue of the Arts: Considerations about Gadamer. - Section Six Arts Nurturing Human Culture. - A Look at Modernism from the Keyboard: The Piano in the Parlor and Abstract Art. - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Richard Wagner and Émile Bernard: Composition and Meaning in the Late Nineteenth Century. - The Temporal Character of Catherine Schieve's Slide Opera. - An Unfolding of Theory and Practice: From Ingarden to a Phenomenological Aesthetic for Opera. - Emotion Metaphor Music and Humor. - The Cultural Milieu of Francis Poulenc (18991963) and his Musique de Tous les Jours (including a brief survey of his works for piano). - Index of Names. Language: English