I On the Embodiment of Form: Polychronic Movement in Flaubert and Debussy

II "Rasch": Roland Barthes' Reading of Schumann's "Kreisleriana"

III Symbolism and Convertion in Clementi's "Didone abbandonata"

IV "Invisible Connections": the Two Harvard Lectures of Bartok (1943) and Calvino (1985)

V Oral Tradition in Bartok's Performance: his Four Recorded Versions of Evening in Transylvania

VI Two Readings of Bartok's Improvisations: Anacrusis as a Sign of Otherness

VII Revisiting the Ancient Elements: Bartok's Out Doors Suite for Piano

VIII Symbol and Reverberation: Patterns of recognition in the Work of Bartok, Rilke, and Brancusi