Introduction

Chapter One - A Tale of Two Organs: The Use of Musical Forms in the Works of Gershon Shofman and Shimazaki Tōson

Chapter Two - Soirée à l’Opéra: Nagai Kafū and Leah Goldberg Go to the Opera

Chapter Three - The Music of Mechanical Ghosts: Literature Meets the Gramophone and the Radio

Chapter Four - Mechanical Music, Horror, and the Modern Dance Macabre: A Cyclical View of History as a Coping Mechanism in Ya’akov Horowiz’s ‘Muzika modernit’

Chapter Five - The Music of the Unconscious: Music and the Literary Expression of the Self

Conclusion

Appendix A – Translation of “A Night at the Latin Quarter” from French Tales by Nagai Kafū

Appendix B – Translation of “Revenge of a Hand Organ” by Gershon Shofman

Appendix C – Translation of “Modern Music” by Ya’akov Horowiz

Appendix D – Translation of “Sarasate’s Recording” by Uchida Hyakken