PART I : INTRODUCING A GENRE
Introduction : why the Lied? / James Parsons
In the beginning was poetry / Jane K. Brown.
PART II : THE BIRTH AND EARLY HISTORY OF A GENRE IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
The eighteenth-century Lied / James Parsons
The Lieder of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven / Amanda Glauert.
PART III : THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: ISSUES OF STYLE AND DEVELOPMENT
The nineteenth century : issues of style and development. The Lieder of Schubert / Marie-Agnes Dittrich
The early nineteenth-century song cycle / Ruth O. Bingham
Schumann : reconfiguring the Lied / Jürgen Thym
A multitude of voices : the Lied at mid century / James Deaville
The Lieder of Liszt / Rena Charnin Mueller
The Lieder of Brahms / Heather Platt
Tradition and innovation : the Lieder of Hugo Wolf / Susan Youens
Beyond song : instrumental trasformations and adaptations of the Lied from Schubert to Mahler / Christopher H. Gibbs.
PART IV : INTO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
The Lieder of Mahler and Richard Strauss / James L. Zychowicz
The Lied in the modern age : to mid century / James Parsons.
PART V : RECEPTION AND PERFORMANCE
The circulation of the Lied : the double life of an artwork and a commodity / David Gramit
The Lied in performance / Grahm Johnson.
