Tropes and windows: An outline of music hermeneutics -- Beethoven's two-movement piano sonatas and the utopia of romantic esthetics -- Impossible objects: Apparitions, reclining nudes, and Chopin's Prelude in A minor -- Liszt, Goethe, and the discourse of gender -- Musical form and fin-de-siècle sexuality -- "As if a voice were in them": Music, narrative, and deconstruction