| 1 | Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103 | Richard Wagner | 18:26 |
| 2 | Kinder-Katechismus, WWV 106 | Richard Wagner | 2:28 |
| 3 | Of All Great Musical Compositions... (Examples 1-4) | Deryck Cooke | 3:37 |
| 4 | The Fundamental Symbol... (Examples 5-11) | Deryck Cooke | 4:46 |
| 5 | Returning Now to the Nature Motive... (Examples 6, 12-16) | Deryck Cooke | 3:22 |
| 6 | A Number of Further Motives... (Examples 5, 17-21) | Deryck Cooke | 3:17 |
| 7 | A Second, Much Smaller Family... (Examples 22-25) | Deryck Cooke | 2:35 |
| 8 | So Much for Nature. (Examples 26-38) | Deryck Cooke | 7:56 |
| 9 | The Cause of the Deterioration... (Examples 39-44) | Deryck Cooke | 3:30 |
| 10 | The Other Transformation... (Examples 45-48) | Deryck Cooke | 3:44 |
| 11 | Several Other Motives... (Examples 49-52) | Deryck Cooke | 2:47 |
| 12 | Two Further Motives... (Examples 41, 53-61) | Deryck Cooke | 7:12 |
| 13 | The Basic Motive Associated With the Spear... (Examples 62-68) | Deryck Cooke | 5:17 |
| 14 | Along Another, More Complex Line... (Examples 69-72) | Deryck Cooke | 2:12 |
| 15 | In Act Two of "Walküre"... (Examples 69, 73-75) | Deryck Cooke | 2:21 |
| 16 | Returning Now to Act Two of "Walküre"... (Examples 76-79) | Deryck Cooke | 3:54 |
| 17 | Love Is Another of the Central Symbols... (Examples 80-83) | Deryck Cooke | 3:06 |
| 18 | Later in the Same Scene... (Examples 84-87) | Deryck Cooke | 2:22 |
| 19 | Freia's Motive Has Two Independent Segments... (Examples 88-91) | Deryck Cooke | 2:01 |
| 20 | The Label 'Flight'... (Example 92) | Deryck Cooke | 0:56 |
| 21 | When Fasolt, in Scene Two of "Rhinegold"... (Examples 93-98) | Deryck Cooke | 5:23 |
| 22 | A Little Later in This Interlude... (Examples 99-103) | Deryck Cooke | 3:07 |
| 23 | The Other New Motive... (Examples 104-109) | Deryck Cooke | 3:37 |
| 24 | There Are Several Independent Love-Motives... (Examples 110-114) | Deryck Cooke | 2:56 |
| 25 | The Characters in Whose Lives... (Examples 115-120) | Deryck Cooke | 5:28 |
| 26 | One Further Motive Belongs... (Example 121) | Deryck Cooke | 1:25 |
| 27 | The Sword Motive Recurs... (Examples 122-130) | Deryck Cooke | 4:28 |
| 28 | Ironically, This Phrase... (Examples 131-135) | Deryck Cooke | 2:59 |
| 29 | Closely Associated With Gutrune's Motive... (Examples 136-140) | Deryck Cooke | 2:27 |
| 30 | Here We Come to the End... (Examples 141-146) | Deryck Cooke | 3:44 |
| 31 | Complementary to This Symbol... (Examples 147-149) | Deryck Cooke | 2:14 |
| 32 | One Last Central Symbol... (Examples 150-157) | Deryck Cooke | 4:54 |
| 33 | One Further Motive Connected... (Examples 158-161) | Deryck Cooke | 2:53 |
| 34 | There Are One or Two Motives... (Examples 162-168) | Deryck Cooke | 3:48 |
| 35 | These Motives of Alberich and Mime... (Examples 169-171) | Deryck Cooke | 2:08 |
| 36 | Quite a Number of the Subsidiary Motives... (Examples 172-176) | Deryck Cooke | 2:51 |
| 37 | Besides This Family of Motives... (Examples 177-180) | Deryck Cooke | 2:32 |
| 38 | Our Final Example... (Examples 10, 181, 182) | Deryck Cooke | 3:57 |
| 39 | In the Final Scene of Götterdämmerung... (Examples 181-183) | Deryck Cooke | 2:45 |
| 40 | Even More Masterly... (Examples 184-188) | Deryck Cooke | 4:32 |
| 41 | Now If We Return... (Examples 189-191) | Deryck Cooke | 2:48 |
| 42 | This Masterly Way... (Examples 192, 193) | Deryck Cooke | 4:53 |