Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The hallowed reputation -- The popular name 'Goldberg' -- The formal name 'Clavierübung IV' -- A note on editions -- The intended harpsichord -- 1 Background and genesis -- Clavierübung -- Clavierübung I -- Clavierübung II -- Clavierübung III -- 'Clavierübung IV' -- The 'Fourteen Canons', BWV 1087 -- 2 Overall shape -- The theme-type -- The plan and its threes -- The plan and its twos -- Some further general points -- Remarks on the notation -- 3 The movements -- Aria -- Variation 1 -- Variation 2 -- Variation 3 -- Variation 4 -- Variation 5 -- Variation 6 -- Variation 7 -- Variation 8 -- Variation 9 -- Variation 10 -- Variation 11 -- Variation 12 -- Variation 13 -- Variation 14 -- Variation 15 -- Variation 16 -- Variation 17 -- Variation 18 -- Variation 19 -- Variation 20 -- Variation 21 -- Variation 22 -- Variation 23 -- Variation 24 -- Variation 25 -- Variation 26 -- Variation 27 -- Variation 28 -- Variation 29 -- Variation 30 -- Texts: -- Aria -- 4 Questions of reception -- The first hundred years -- Beethoven's Diabelli Variations -- Some modern theories -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1 Background and genesis -- 2 Overall shape -- 3 The movements -- 4 Questions of reception -- Bibliography -- Index.