Contents

• Introduction (Alexander Goehr)
• Editor's Preface (Christopher Wintle)
• Acknowledgements

•  Prologue
  
  
•  I   Themes
  • 1 – Chosen Themes
  • 2 – Invented Themes
    
    
• II   The Variation Sets
• 3 – The Independent Sets
• 4 – The Piano Sonatas
• 5 - The String Sextets
• 6 - Two Late Chamber Works
• 7 - The Finales
• 8 - The Duration of Themes and Sets
  
  
  
• III   A Case Study
  • 9 – Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9
    
    
    
• Epilogue
  
  
  
• Bibliography
  
  
  
• Indexes
• Index of Names and Works
• Index of Topics

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see also:

• introduction
• publication details and contents
• excerpts from the book
• review by Michael Musgrave
  
  
• companion website to the book containing supplementary scores