Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Ian Bent
  • Preface
  • Author's note
  • Part I. The Farewell Symphony. 1. The construction of the whole ; 2. Instability ; 3. Resolution ; 4. The program
  • Part II. Cyclic organization in Haydn's instrumental music. 5. Progressive form and the rhetoric of instability ; 6. Integration of the cycle ; 7. Extramusical associations ; 8. Individual compositions
  • Historiographical conclusion : Haydn's maturity and "Classical style".