The musical essays included in this little volume have been selected from a larger group of articles written by Harold Zabrack.The essays concern themselves with a rather wide range of different musical subjectswhich include an in-depth study of musical performance several analyses of Keyboard works by J. S. Bach Chopin and Brahms a description of an innovative kind of experience entitled 'The Musical Encounter Experience' aquasi-psychoanalytic investigation into a possible etiology of Piano technique and finally a discussion and evaluation of twentieth century music.