PETER LYNAN is General Editor of Musica Britannica. JULIAN RUSHTON is Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Leeds, UK. Donald Burrows is Professor of Music at the Open University and a leading scholar of the music of George Frideric Handel.

• Introduction - Peter Lynan and Julian RushtonPart I. Performers and Performance Style1. Henry, Elizabeth, and George: New Light on Music at Wilton House in the 1770s - Peter Holman 2. Wilhelm Cramer, the Professional Concert, and the Foundation of the Modern Symphony Orchestra - Simon McVeigh3. Thomas Vincent (1723-1798): Oboist, Composer, and Entrepreneur - Michael Talbot4. J. C. Bach and the 'true Organ Style': Propriety and Impropriety in Eighteenth-Century English Organ Music - Peter LynanPart II. Composers and Secular Institutions5. Henry Purcell's Mad Songs in the Theatre and Concert Rooms in the Eighteenth Century - Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson6. From 'Fowle Originall' to 'Printed for the Author': The Autograph Score of William Croft's 'Laurus cruentas' - Alan Howard7. James Lates of Oxford and his Sixteen Minuets - Susan Wollenberg8. William Hayes (1708-1777), Professor of Music - Simon HeighesPart III. Sacred Music and Institutions9. Music and Musicians at Westminster Abbey, 1685-1760 - Tony Trowles10. Catholic Church Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain - John Caldwell11. Precedents for the Symphony Anthem: British Library Additional Manuscript 31434 and the Court of Charles I - Jonathan P. WainwrightPart IV. Dissemination: Printing and Publishing12. 'You can't have it of Smith except you'll have it wrote out on Purpose': Eighteenth-Century Copyists of Handel's Music in London and the 'Smith Scriptorium' - Donald Burrows13. The Earliest Surviving Engraved Music Plates? - Peter Ward Jones and Kelly DomoneyEpilogue: Musica Britannica and the Eighteenth Century - Julian RushtonHarry Diack Johnstone: A TributeBibliography of the Works of Harry Diack JohnstoneIndex