Themes and variations. Diction : a rhapsody ; Singing, creativity, and courage ; A modest proposal
Words, music, and meaning. Words and words, words and the world : intertextuality ; Music and words 1 : musikē ; Music and words 2 : Nietzsche and The birth of tragedy
Science, music, paradigms, and meaning. Science and paradigms ; Science and music : paradigms and "normal practitioners" ; Einstein and Schoenberg : the move to radical abstraction ; Modernism and the "end" of paradigms
Toward a symbiosis : rational and a-rational. Modernism, postmodernism, and the reproduction of distraction ; Self, difference, and reconciliation.
