The mechanics of sensation and the construction of the romantic musical experience / Leslie David BlasiusF.W.J. Schelling's Philosophie der Kunst : an emergent semiology of music / Ian Biddle -- Fétis and emerging tonal consciousness / Thomas Christensen -- Romantic music under siege in 1848 / Sanna Pederson -- Second immediacies in the Eroica / Brian Hyer -- Plato-Beethoven : a hermeneutics for nineteenth-century music? / Ian Bent -- Intersubjectivity and analysis : Schumann's essay on the Fantastic symphony / Fred Everett Maus -- The concept of développement in the early nineteenth century / Peter A. Hoyt -- A.B. Marx and the gendering of sonata form / Scott Burnham -- --wie ein rother Faden : on the origins of Leitmotif as critical construct and musical practice / Thomas Grey -- Musical invariance as a cognitive structure : "multiple meaning" in the early nineteenth century / Janna K. Saslaw and James P. Walsh.