Introduction

Part One: Documents

• I. The First Leeds International Pianoforte Competition
• II. The Three Versions of the Musical Text

Part Two: Scores

• Version A. ‘Notturno’, Original Version (Manuscript) and Transcription
• Version B. ‘Night-piece’, Second Manuscript Version
• Version C. ‘Night-piece’, Printed Version

Part Three: Theory and Analysis

• I. Theory: The Modes
• II. Analysis

Part Four: Ideas

• I. Tradition, Devotion, Creativity and Idea
• II. Idea as Form
• III. Idea as Steigerung (Intensification)
• IV. Idea as Neapolitan Complex

Appendices

• I. On Intensification (‘Was ist Steigerung’)
• II. On the Neapolitan Complex (‘The Sceptred Pall: Brahms’s Progressive Harmony’)