Forward and Front Matter
Editors-in -Chief

Fleeting Fairy Footprints: Trails of Influence in a Debussy Prelude
Michael Clark

Performing Ritual: Physical and Musical Gesture in Benjamin Britten’s Curlew River
Helen Tucker

Figures Pointing to an End: Operatic Analysis and Modern Sound Design
Martin Dawson

Performance Practice of Early American Hymnody: Tempo and the “Moods of Time”
Erin Fulton

“Wir Arme Leut”: Undignified Death and Madness in Berg’s Wozzeck
Meaghan Parker