Part I: GEB. Introduction: A musico-logical offering (Three-part invention) ; The MU-puzzle (Two-part invention) ; Meaning and form in mathematics (Sonata for unaccompanied Achilles) ; Figure and ground (Contracrostipunctus) ; Consistency, completeness, and geometry (Little harmonic labyrinth) ; Recursive structures and processes Canon by intervallic augmentation) ; The location of meaning Chromatic fantasy, and feud) ; The propositional calculus Crab canon) ; Typographical number theory (A Mu offering) ; Mumon and Godel

Part II: EGB. Levels of description and computer systems (... Ant fugue) ; Brains and thoughts (English French German suite) ; Minds and thoughts (Aria with diverse variations) ; BlooP and flooP and glooP (Air on G's string) ; On formally undecidable propositions of TNT and related systems (Birthday cantatatata) ; Jumping out of the system (Edifying thoughts of a tobacco smoker) ; Self-ref and self-rep (The magnificrab, indeed) ; Church, Turing, Tarski, and others (SHRDLU, toy of man's designing) ; Artificial intelligence : retrospects (Contrafactus) ; Artificial intelligence : prospects (Sloth canon) ; Strange loops, or tangled hierarchies (Six-part ricercar).