Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-254) and index.
Introduction : listening to music -- Shifting sensibilities : Calvin and music -- Disquieting conversations : Bach, modernity, and God -- The nature of music : Rameau, Rousseau, and 'natural theology' -- Musical apotheosis : early German Romanticism -- Room of one's own? : music, space, and freedom -- Music and God-talk (1) : mapping the field -- Music and God-talk (2) : interaction in action