Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Biographical Note ix
5. Introduction xi
6. Practising Bach 1
7. Language Is Hands 3
8. from Leaving Home 5
9. from Seven Elegies: Robert William Zwicky (1927–1987) The Horse Pull 9
10. K. 219, Adagio 11
11. The Geology of Norway 12
12. Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115 16
13. Cashion Bridge 17
14. Bill Evans: “Here’s That Rainy Day” 24
15. Beethoven: Op. 95 25
16. Driving Northwest 30
17. Prairie 31
18. Epistemology 32
19. One Version 33
20. Robinson’s Crossing 34
21. History 39
22. Another Version 40
23. Glenn Gould: Bach’s “Italian” Concerto, bwv 971 41
24. Small song in praise of ears 42
25. Small song for the voice of the nuthatch 43
26. Small Song: Prairie 44
27. Small song to oneself 45
28. Small Song:Mozart 46
29. Small Song: Laundry 47
30. from Music and Silence: Seven Variations 48
31. Late Schubert 50
32. Practising Bach 51
33. Gemini 55
34. If There Were Two Rivers 56
35. From Distant Lands 58
36. The Art of Fugue 59
37. Schumann: Fantasie, Op. 17 64
38. Autobiography 66
39. Autumn Again 67
40. An Abridgement of a Conversation with Jan Zwicky 69
41. Selected readings 77
42. Acknowledgements 79
43. lps Books in the Laurier Poetry Series 81