Introduction: Music and the young Klee: a striving toward creative affirmation -- "Ad Parnassum": the theory and practice of eighteenth-century polyphony as models for Klee's art: The principles of counterpoint applied -- Toward a theory of pictorial polyphony -- The contribution of Delaunay -- The development of the color theme -- The development of color polyphony -- "Counter-pointillism" -- "Ad Parnassum" -- Operatic paintings: the roles of line and poetry in Klee's mature art: 1919 to 1933: The integration of line and color -- 1933 to 1936: Crisis and transition in Klee's art -- 1937 to 1940: The triumph of line in Klee's late work -- The drums of the requiem -- Klee, Goethe, Mozart: Music, aesthetics, and national identity: Music and the ideals of German sensibility -- Klee and Mozart -- Universality, accessibility, and the aesthetics of the childlike.
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