Introduction - The Making of the Motif: The Contour of Melancholy in the Lute-Songs of John Dowland - The Re-Making of the Motif: Literary Contexts as Determinants in Bach and Berlioz - The Transformation of the Motif: Lamp-Lighters in Mahler's Musical World - In Beethoven's Clockshop: Discontinuity in the Opus 18 Quartets - Spiral Time and the Paradigm of Persuasion: Recontextualizing Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 127 - Invisible Cities and Imaginary Landscapes 'quasi una fantasia': On Beethoven's Op. 131 - 'Mind the Gap': Pitch Connectors and Sectional Disjunction in Schubert's Late Instrumental Music - Chronicles and Witnesses: 'A Survivor from Warsaw' in Adorno's Broken Mirror - Coda - Bibliography.
Metamorphoses : Problem-Solving Strategies in Musical Structure