Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 -- 1. "The Wondrous Transformation of Thought into Sound": Some Preliminary Reflections on Musical Meaning in Brahms -- 2. The Learned Self: Artifice in Brahms's Late Intermezzi -- Part 2 -- 3. "Alte Liebe" and the Birds of Spring: Text, Music, and Image in Max Klinger's Brahms Fantasy -- 4. Brahms's Mädchenlieder and Their Cultural Context -- 5. Ancient Tragedy and Anachronism: Form as Expression in Brahms's Gesang der Parzen -- Part 3 -- 6. Sequence as Expressive Culmination in the Chamber Music of Brahms -- 7. "Phantasia subitanea": Temporal Caprice in Brahms's op. 116, nos. 1 and 7 -- 8. Monumentality and Formal Processes in the First Movement of Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, op. 15 -- 9. The Drama of Tonal Pairing in Chamber Music of Schumann and Brahms -- Selected Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index of Brahms's Compositions -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.