Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- LIST OF FIGURES (page xi)
- LIST OF MUSIC EXAMPLES (page xiii)
- CD PLAYLIST (page xv)
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xxi)
- Introduction (page 1)
- 1. "Cello-and-Bow Thinking": The First Movement of Boccherini's Cello Sonata in E♭ Major, Fuori Catalogo (page 14)
- 2. "As My Works Show Me to Be": Biographical (page 38)
- 3. Gestures and Tableaux (page 65)
- 4. Virtuosity, Virtuality, Virtue (page 105)
- 5. A Melancholy Anatomy (page 160)
- 6. "It Is All Cloth of the Same Piece": The Early String Quartets (page 207)
- 7. The Perfect Listener: A Recreation (page 254)
- APPENDIX: CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF STRING QUARTETS (page 271)
- NOTES (page 273)
- BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 331)
- INDEX (page 345)