Salaambo (1862), Novel by Gustave Flaubert

1. Richard Strauss: Salome – Dance of the Seven Veils
2. Flaubert: Salaambo (dance with the python)
3. Claude Debussy: Syrinx (solo flute)
4. Flaubert: Salaambo (description of Salaambo)
5. Maurice Ravel: La Flûte enchantée (from Schéhérazade)
6. Flaubert: Salaambo (Matho and Salaambo in the tent; Matho executed)
7. Virgil: Aeneis, IV (from Südwestrundfunk)
8. Virgil: The Aeneid 4 (translations by W.F. Jackson Knight and John Dryden)
9. Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (‘When I am laid in earth…’)
10. Baudelaire: from La Chevelure
11. Maurice Ravel: Asie (from Schéhérazade)
12. Baudelaire: from Le Serpent qui danse
13. Giuseppe Verdi: from Aida (final scene)
14. Hector Berlioz: Marche troyenne (from Les Troyens à Carthage)
15. Edward Said: from Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient
16. Flaubert: Kuchuk Hanem as L’Abeille (The Bee)
17. Oum Kolthoum: from a live concert in Cairo
18. Delacroix on The Death of Sardanapalus
19. Byron: from Sardanapalus (1821)
20. Saint-Saëns: Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah
21. Horace: Odes I, 37 (on Cleopatra)
22. P.A. Vieillard: from La Mort de Cléopâtre
23. Hector Berlioz: from La Mort de Cléopâtre
24. Erik Satie: Gymnopédie no. 1