Descartes on musical training and the body / Kate van Orden -- Bemetzrieder's dream : Diderot and the pathology of tonal sensibility in the Leçons de clavecin / Thomas Christensen -- "Little pearl teardrops" : Schubert, Schumann, and the tremulous body of romantic song / Lawrence Kramer -- Untying the music/language knot / Elizabeth Tolbert -- Sensational sacrifices : feasting the senses in the Bolivian Andes / Henry Stobart -- Siren sensualities in physical theatre : Lloyd Newson's strange fish (1992) / Janet Adshead-Lansdale -- Heroism undone : the erotic manuscript parodies of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Tragédies en musique / Catherine Gordon-Seifert -- Processions for the dead, the senses, and ritual identity in colonial Mexico / Grayson Wagstaff -- Between life and death : the funeral and mourning rituals of the Southeastern Hungarian Vlach Roma / Irén Kertész Wilkinson -- The call of the human voice in Poulenc's La voix humaine / Michal Grover-Friedlander -- The performance of vision in Peter Sellars's television production of Cosí fan tutte / Marcia J. Citron -- Sensational performing and promotional bodies / Sherril Dodds -- Musical instruments, glass cases, and headsets : sound and sensation in France's Museum of Music / Carla Zecher -- Village noise and Bruegel's parables / Hiroyuki Minamino -- Pastoral pleasures sensual sounds : paintings of love, music, and morality in sixteenth-century Italy / Katherine A. McIver -- The signifying serpent: seduction by cultural stereotype in seventeenth-century England / Julia Craig-McFeely -- Musicology and the problem of sonic abuse / Jamie C. Kassler -- An historical perspective on the study of music perception / Amy B. Graziano