A Period Almost as Long as the LIGHT (By Way of Introduction), 1.1. About the Origins of This Book, 1.2. "Too Many Notes?", 1.3. The Structure of the Book, 1.4.
Writing Criteria, PUNKTE (1952/1962), 3. Mixtures, 4. KONTRA-PUNKTE (1952-53), STUDIE I (1953), 5.1. The Frequencies and Correlations of Sound Parameters, 5.2. Regarding the Groups, 5.3.
Regarding Intensities, 5.4. Regarding Durations, 5.5. Regarding the Overall Musical Form and Its Balance, 5.6. Sketches or Score?, 5.7.
Rigor Versus Imponderability, STUDIE II (1954), 6.1. A Realisationspartitur?, 6.2. Regarding Frequencies and Variants of "Sound Mixtures", 6.3. Regarding the Simultaneity of Sinusoidal Sounds, 6.4.
The Serial Structure, 6.5. Regarding the Overall Musical Form, 6.6. Regarding Intensities, 6.7. Is There Subtractive Synthesis in STUDIE II?, 6.8.
Regarding Attack Durations and Distances, 6.9. Are There Mixtures in STUDIE II?, 6.10. Re-Realize STUDIE II, 6.11. A Mixture Is Missing in STUDIE II!, 6.12.
A Strange Episode, KLAVIERSTÜCK VIII (1954), GESANG DER JÜNGLINGE (1955-56), 8.1. The Choice of Text and Its Characteristic Marks, 8.2. The Binary Opposition at the Interval Level, 8.3. Sound Spatiality, 8.4.
Sprachkomposition (Verbal Composition), 8.5. Regarding Timbres and Intensities, 8.6. Regarding the Serial Matrix, 8.7. Regarding Sound Textures, 8.8.
Concerning Text Intelligibility, 8.9. Fixed Time Versus Real Time?, 8.10. The Restored Song, Phonemes, 10. KLAVIERSTÜCK IX (1954/1961), 11. KLAVIERSTÜCK X (1954/1961), 12. KLAVIERSTÜCK XI (1956), 13.
Polysemias, 14. ZEITMASZE (1955-56), GRUPPEN (1955-57), 15.1. Interlocution with Luciano Berio, 15.2. Regarding the Spatial Distribution of Orchestral Groups, 15.3. About the Tone Row, 15.
4. Regarding the Tempos, 15.5. Concerning the Global Form of the Work, 15.6. About the Groups and Durations, 15.7. About the Inserts, 15.
8. The Three Spatial Chords, 15.9. An "Electronic" Orchestral Scripture, 15.10. Regarding Formantic Structures, 15.11. The Many Musics of GRUPPEN, 15.
12. Regarding Spatiality, Virtualities, 17. ZYKLUS (1959).