Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. List of Music Examples ix
5. List of Tables xviii
6. Preface xix
7. Acknowledgements xxiii
8. chapter 1 A Musical Riddle 1
9. chapter 2 The Riddles of Music 17
10. chapter 3 The Rise of Cryptography 49
11. chapter 4 Sounding Numbers, Fickle Anagrams, Chameleonic Alphabets and Carved Vowels 69
12. chapter 5 Sonic Monuments, Alchemy, Hexachords and Lunar Discourses 101
13. chapter 6 BACH: His Way and Ours 129
14. chapter 7 Enlightened Ciphers, Ars combinatoria and Masonic Secrets 147
15. chapter 8 Censors, Unsinn, Nominal Ciphers and Solrésol 175
16. chapter 9 Riddles of the Sphinx 203
17. chapter 10 Stenographic Mysteries, Dark Sayings, Magic Squares and Foul Balls 229
18. chapter 11 Queer Liaisons, Mystic Chords, DSCH and Tombstone Monograms 261
19. chapter 12 Hommages, Tombeaux, Triskaidekaphilia and Langage communicable 291
20. chapter 13 (12a) Mystics, Numerologists and Modernists 321
21. chapter 14 Round Trips, Gothic Skyscrapers, Thunderwords and Fallen Angels 347
22. Bibliography 377
23. Index 417