Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: The Structure of Improvisation, Derived from Music
Chapter 1: The Conversation of Improvised Musical Performance
Chapter 2: Place and the Origin of Improvisation
Chapter 3: Where Are We When We Improvise Music?
Part II: Improvisation in the Philosophical Hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer
Chapter 4: Improvising with Gadamer
Chapter 5: Hermeneutics and the Call to Improvise
Chapter 6: Improvisation, Ethics, and Factical Life
Coda: Soon We Shall Be Song
Bibliography
Index