David Code, a candidate for the Ph.D. in Music, is writing a dissertation entitled A Song Not Purely His Own: The Pastoral Voice of Mallarmé, Debussy, and Matisse. The dissertation, unfolding as a series of parallel studies, draws on literary theories of the pastoral mode to show how Mallarmé’s poetry, Debussy’s music, and Matisse’s paintings stimulate new modes of reading, listening and looking through invocations of multiple idealized pasts.