1. Composition : key to musicianship -- 2. First ideas -- 3. Formal principles -- 4. Melody -- 5. Harmony and counterpoint -- 6. Vocal writing -- 7. Accompaniments -- 8. The piece as a whole -- 9. Choral music -- 10. Technical expansions 1 : free pentatonic music, free diatonicism, the whole-tone scale, bitonality and polytonality, harmony in fourths -- 11. Technical expansions 2 : towards atonality, atonality, free chromaticism or free twelve-note music, twelve-note harmony -- 12. Serialism -- 13. Indeterminacy, graph scores, text scores, improvisation -- 14. Practical applications.