Introduction: Berlioz and the pantheon / Francesca Brittan and Sarah Hibberd
Essays I. The language of prophecy in 'Les Troyens' / Sarah Hibberd ; "Ossianic sounds" : Berlioz on memory / Carmel Raz ; Berlioz contra Rousseau : nature, culture, and la musique descriptive / Alexandra Kieffer
Object lessons I. Berlioz's Virgil / Ellen Lockhart ; Inevitable antagonists : Berlioz and Donizetti / Roger Parker ; Hearing the hostias, rehearing the Requiem / Jennifer Walker
Essays II. Orchestral futurisms : Berlioz and science fiction / Francesa Brittan ; Passing the baton : conducting masculinity in La damnation de Faust / Inge van Rij ; On Berlioz's subterranean operations : toward a nineteenth-century media logic / Shaena B. Weitz
Object lessons II. Euphonian sound and fury, signifying something / Benjamin Walton ; Berlioz : conductor and one-man band / Jacek Blaszkiewicz ; "Je crois en vous" / Nathan Dougherty
Essays III. American episodes in the life of the artist / Jonathan Kregor ; A comet in the musical sky : Ferdinand Hiller on Hector Berlioz / Ralph P. Locke and Jürgen Thym ; Intimate beauty and sublime grandeur : sound and space in the music of Berlioz / Leon Botstein.