Intent (1918, 1923)

The Self-Encounter

An Old Jug

Too Close / At the Place Below / The Glass and the Jug

Creation of the Ornament

The Early / The Technical Coldness / Purpose Form and Expressive Exuberance / The Backgrounds of Artistic Will (Greek Liking / Egyptian Aspiration to Become Like Stone / Gothic Aspiration to Become Like Resurrection) / The Image of the Innermost Form / Our Artistically Secret Signature

Philosophy of Music

Dream

On the History of Music

Beginnings / The Process (The Craft Sequentially / The Sociological Context / The Explosive Youth of Music / The Problem of a Philosophy of History of Music) / The Abundance and Its Schema (The Song / On Mozart / The Passions / Bach, His Form and His Subject / Carmen / Open Song and Fidelio / Missa Solemnis / The Birth of the Sonata / Brahms and Chamber Music / Beethoven, His Form, His Subject and the Spirit of the Sonata / Strauss, Mahler, Bruckner / On Wagner: Predecessors / False Polemics / Sprechgesang, Syncopated Rhythm and Chordal Polyphony / The Transcendent Opera and Its Object)

On the Theory of Music

The Use and Tone Poem (The Tone Quality / The Attack / The Creative Setting to Music) / The Interpretation or on the Relationship Between Absolute and Speculative Music (The What of Expression in General / The Philosophical Theory of Music) / Means, Formulas, Forms and Phenomena of Transcending Music Theory (Tone as Means / Harmony Theory as Formula / Relationships of Rhythm as Form / The Bachian and Beethovenian Counterpointing as Form and Beginning Idiogram / Once Again the Tone: Not as Means, but as Phenomenon / On the Thing-in-Itself in Music).