Contents: Composition between musical idea, score, and listener : the problem of relationship / Vita Gruodyte -- Semiotics in the analysis of opera : Cyrano de Bergerac by Eino Tamberg / Anneli Remme -- The structure of classical theme. : some preliminary concepts / Mart Humal -- On Brahms's Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht, op. 96/1 : a Schenkerian view / Lauri Suurpää -- On the coordination of tonal functions, pitch sets, meter, and form in L'îsle joyeuse by Debussy. / Olli Väisälä -- Pierre Boulez's Le marteau sans maître : the composition as a process and a result / Tatyana Tsaregradskaya -- Theoretical and practical aspects of set analysis / Audrone Jurkenaite -- Elements of chess strategy in. Beethoven's art of thematic process / Rein Laul -- Eine Alpensinfonie : the ideal of Richard Strauss' symphonic form? / Margus Pärtlas -- Sonata as a principle and a form in the context of 20th century music / Andres Pung