Moments musicaux. Foreword ; Beethoven's last style ; Schubert ; Homage to Zerlina ; The pictorial world of Der Freischutz ; The tales of Hoffmann in Offenbach's motives ; On the score of Parsifal ; Night music ; Ravel ; New tempi ; On jazz ; Physignomy of Krenek ; Mahagonny ; Zillig's Verlaine songs ; Reaction and progress ; Schönberg's Wind quintet ; Alienated magnum opus : The Missa solemnis
Theory of new music. Nineteen encyclopedia articles on new music ; Atonal intermezzo? ; Against the new tonality ; Excursuses on an excursus ; Why twelve-note music? ; The development and forms of new music ; New music today ; On the state of composition in Germany ; On the relationship between painting and music today ; On the current relationship between philosophy and music.