Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prelude: Music and Musicking -- 1. A Place for Hearing -- 2. A Thoroughly Contemporary Affair -- 3. Sharing with Strangers -- Interlude 1 The Language of Gesture -- 4. A Separate World -- 5. A Humble Bow -- 6. Summoning Up the Dead Composer -- Interlude 2 The Mother of All the Arts -- 7. Score and Parts -- 8. Harmony, Heavenly Harmony -- Interlude 3 Socially Constructed Meanings -- 9. An Art of the Theater -- 10. A Drama of Relationships -- 11. A Vision of Order -- 12. What's Really Going On Here? -- 13. A Solitary Flute Player -- Postlude: Was It a Good Performance and How Do You Know? -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.