The Orchestration of The Arts-A Creative Symbiosis of Existential Powers Book

	Acknowledgements	ix
	The Orchestration of the Arts: A New Approach to the Great Questions	ix
	Introduction	1
Section 1	Music, Literature, History, Architecture, Staging, Painting, Decoration: Within A Symphony of the Arts
	Paradox and Metaphor: An Integrity of the Arts	5
	Aesthetic Symbiosis and Spiritual Quest: Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece in Hindemith's Opera Mathis der Maler	17
	The Ambiguity of Baroque Enchantment: Operatic Mise en Abyme	53
	The Musicalization of Prose: Prolegomena to the Experience of Literature in Musical Form	65
	Calderon's Dramatic Technique: The Orchestration of the Arts, From Drama to Opera	75
	Baroque Splendor: Vierzehnheiligen Church and Bach's B-Minor Mass	89
Section 2	Sharing in Creative and Cosmic Synergies
	Orchestration of the Universe: Reflections on Tagore's Creativity	99
	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	113
	The Interdependency of Literature, Architecture, Theater and Music as an Expression of Baroque Absolutism at the Hapsburg Court in Vienna	135
	Literature and Architecture as a Metaphor of "Grandeur" and "Decadence"	149
	Louis Sullivan: The Life-Enhancing Symbiosis of Music, Language, Architecture, and Ornament	165
	An Orchestration of the Arts in Wallace Stevens' "Peter Quince at the Clavier"	183
Section 3	The Symbiosis and the Interaction of the Arts
	The Harmonic Conceit: Music, Nature and Mind in Wordworth's Prelude	197
	Histoire de L'Aveugle: "Matierisme"'s Critique of Vision	209
	Images of Water and the Sea in Tristan L'Hermite's "La Mer" and in Painting	241
Section 4	Arts Interacting with Our Perception of Nature and Human Life
	Fire and Ice: Le Vrai Magique	257
	W. E. B. du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk as an Example of the Tragic	265
	The Blending of Natures and the Perception of the Real	275
	The Symbiosis and the Interaction of the Arts: Cesario Verde, Poet / Painter	283
	This is Mine, and I Can Hold It: Edna St. Vincent Millay and her Music	293
Section 5	The Poetic Inter-Reflection of the Arts
	The Terpsichorean Poem	305
	A Study in Nostalgia: The Orchestration of Life in Facade. The Edith Sitwell--William Walton Musico-Poetic Collaboration	315
	Interreflection of Complementary Expressive Means in Combined-Media Art Performances	325
	The Orchestration of the Arts in Leila Sebbar's Sherazade, 17 ans, brune, frisee, les yeux verts	343
	Beauty and the Dialogue of the Arts: Considerations about Gadamer	351
Section 6	Arts Nurturing Human Culture
	A Look at Modernism from the Keyboard: The Piano in the Parlor and Abstract Art	365
	Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Richard Wagner and Emile Bernard: Composition and Meaning in the Late Nineteenth Century	379
	The Temporal Character of Catherine Schieve's Slide Opera	391
	An Unfolding of Theory and Practice: From Ingarden to a Phenomenological Aesthetic for Opera	401
	Emotion, Metaphor, Music, and Humor	417
	The Cultural Milieu of Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) and his "Musique de Tous les Jours" (including a brief survey of his works for piano)	437
	Index of Names	469