Part I
Introduction: a Catholic composer in the age of Bismarck / John Williamson
Musical life in Upper Austria in the mid-nineteenth century / Andrea Harrandt
Bruckner in Vienna / Andrea Harrandt
Part II: Choral music
Bruckner's large sacred compositions / Paul Hawkshaw
Bruckner and the motet / A. Crawford Howie
Bruckner and secular vocal music / A. Crawford Howie
Part III: The symphonist
The Brucknerian symphony: an overview / John Williamson
Bruckner's symphonies - a reinterpretation: a dialectic of darkness and light / Derek B. Scott
Programme symphony and absolute music / John Williamson
Bruckner editions: the revolution revisited / Benjamin M. Korstvedt
Bruckner and the symphony orchestra / Julian Horton
Between formlessness and formality: aspects of Bruckner's approach to symphonic form / Benjamin M. Korstvedt
Formal process as spiritual progress: the symphonic slow movements / Margaret Notley
Bruckner and harmony / Kevin Swinden
Part IV: Reception
Conductors and Bruckner / John Williamson
The musical image of Bruckner / Christa Brustle.