Language. Language and the interpretation of music ; Being at a loss for words ; Beethoven's "expressive" markings -- Performance. The immanence of performance in medieval song ; Early recorded performances of Chopin waltzes and mazurkas : the relation to the text -- Notation. What kind of thing is musical notation? ; Sketching music, writing music -- Interpretative frames. The Lulu character and the character of Lulu ; History and archetypes ; Gender and other dualities of music history ; Hermeneutics, exegetics, or what? ; Facile metaphors, hidden gaps, short circuits : should we adore Adorno?.
