Aesthetics: the ends of artworks. Aesthetics I: the nature of art ; Aesthetics II: the uses of art ; Aesthetics III: the genealogy of modern European art music ; Poetics and Hermeneutics: the contents and interpretation of artworks. Poetics I: diegesis and mimesis, the poetic modes and the matter of artistic presentation ; Poetics II: narrative and lyric, the poetic forms and the object of artistic presentation ; Hermeneutics: interpretation and its validity.