1. Introduction: different trains Craig Ayrey; Part I. Translations: 2. Stravinsky's symphonies: accident or design? Stephen Walsh; 3. Transcription and recomposition: the strange case of Zemlinsky's Maeterlinck songs Derrick Puffett; 4. Symphony or symphonic scenes: issues of structure and context in Schumann's 'Rhenish' Symphony Michael Musgrave; 5. The poetry of Debussy's En blanc et noir Jonathan Dunsby; 6. Poem as non-verbal text: Elliott Carter's Concerto for Orchestra and Saint-John Perse's Winds Jonathan W. Bernard; Part II. Rhetorics: 7. Birtwistle's secret theatres Jonathan Cross; 8. The narrative impulse in the second Nachtmusik from Mahler's Seventh Symphony Kopi Agawu; 9. 'Von heute auf morgen': Schoenberg and the New Criticism Alan Street; 10. Misleading voices: contrasts and continuities in Stravinsky studies Anthony Pople; 11. Immortal voices, mortal forms Carolyn Abbate; 12. So who are you? Webern's Op. 3, No. 1 David Griffiths.