Prologue : again Herder
Folk song at the beginnings of national history : Alte Volkslieder (1774)
The folk-song project at the confluence of music and nationalism : Volkslieder (1778/1779) and Stimmen der Völker in Liedern (1807)
Singing the sacred body : Lieder der Liebe
The nation and its fragments : extract from Correspondence about Ossian and the songs of ancient peoples
Songs of the enlightenment bard : Homer and Ossian
Redemption through sacred song : letter 46, theological writings
The shores of modernity : Wirkung der Dichtkunst auf die Sitten neuerer Zeiten
The epic as nation : Herder's Cid
Music transcendent and sublime : On music (1800)
Epilogue : Herder's journey.