Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Orpheus in Tennis Sneakers -- 2. Situations of Too Extreme Difficulty: 1951-1959 -- 3. Vast, Sparse Areas of Possibility: 1960-1969 -- 4. Let Playing Be Composition and Composition Playing: 1969-1974 -- 5. Something More Specifically "Musical": 1973-1984 -- 6. Not to Do Something I've Already Done: 1982-1999 -- 7. Among Friends, in a Private World -- NOTES -- FOR FURTHER READING -- RECORDINGS -- INDEX.