Table of Contents:
  • Cello-and-bow thinking : the first movement of Boccherini's Cello sonata in E♭ major, Fuori catalogo
  • As my works show me to be : biographical
  • Gestures and tableaux
  • Virtuosity, virtuality, virtue
  • A melancholy anatomy
  • It is all cloth of the same piece : the early string quartets
  • The perfect listener : a re-creation
  • Appendix : chronological table of string quartets.