First things : Language and the beginnings of creation -- Emanuel Bach and the allure of the irrational : Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and the aesthetics of patricide ; The ends of Veranderung ; Late works ; Probestuck ; Eiderot's paradoxe and C.P.E. Bach's empfindungen -- Between enlightenment and romance : Haydn's Chaos and Herder's logos ; Beethoven and the romance of creation -- Beethoven: confronting the past : Cadenza contra text: Mozart in beethoven's hands ; Opus 90: in search of Emanuel Bach ; Adagio espressivo: opus 109 as radical dialectic ; Lisch aus, mein licht: song, Fugue, and the symptoms of a late style -- Fragments : Toward and epistemology of fragment ; Reliquie -- Death masks : Walter Benjamin and the apprehending of beauty

1. Music -- Psychological aspects
2. Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
3. Composition (Music) -- Psychological aspects