Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: Poet
1 Baudelaire's Invitation to Composers
2 Song and Memory in the "Terrible Year"
3 "To the Depths of the Unknown in Search of the New!"
4 Interlude: The Poet Sings
Part II: Singer
5 Mélodie at the Crossroads
6 Song, Salons, and the "Society Singer"
7 Collaboration and Creative Process
8 Interlude: The Voices of Fêtes Galantes
Part III: Public
9 Singing Histories
10 Reimagining Song at the Conservatoire
11 Mélodie Centre Stage
12 Postlude: Philosophies of Composition
Bibliography
Index

Emily Kilpatrick is Associate Professor and Lecturer in Academic Studies at the Royal Academy of Music, London.