General perspectives. Organicism and modernism/music and literature / John Neubauer ; 'Singing the nation', word/music tension in the opera Voss / Michael Halliwell ; Writing about music, Baudelaire and Tannhäuser in Paris / Mary Breatnach ; Do Mallarmé's Divagations tell us not to write about musical works? / Peter Dayan ; When is a text like music? / Frédérique Arroyas

The song cycle. Problems in song cycle analysis and the case of Mädchenblumen / Suzann M. Lodato ; "Willst zu meinen Liedern deine Leier drehn?", intermedial metatextuality in Schubert's "Derr Leiermann" as a motivation for song and accompaniment and a contribution to the unity of Die Winterreise / Werner Wolf ; Design and unity in Schumann's Liederkreis, op. 39? / Leon Plantinga ; A cycle in flux, Schumann's Eichendorff Liederkreis / Jürgen Thym ; Hugo Wolf's seventeen Divan-settings, an undiscovered Goethe-cycle? / Harry E. Seelig ; Three types of song cycles, the variety of Britten's 'Charms' / Walter Bernhart ; Concept albums, song cycles in popular music / Martina Elicker.