Thomas Forrest Kelly is Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music at Harvard University. Sean Gallagher is Visiting Associate Professor of Music at Boston University. Elaine R. Sisman is Associate Professor of Music, Columbia University.

• Eighteenth-Century Music in its Intellectual Contexts The German Eighteenth Century: Marking Time David Blackbourn, Harvard University Fundamenta Partiturae: Thorough-Bass and Foundations of Eighteenth-Century Composition Pedagogy Thomas Christensen, University of Chicago Mishmash or Synthesis? On the Psychagogic Form of The Creation Hermann Danuser, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin Six of One: The Opus Concept in the Eighteenth Century Elaine Sisman, Columbia University Composing and Hearing Music in the Eighteenth Century Bach's Passions and the Textures of Time John Butt, University of Glasgow Bach and Hypocrisy: Appearance and Truth in Cantatas 136 and 179 Eric Chafe, Brandeis University Tartini and his Texts Sergio Durate, Universita di Padova Sources and Transmission The Evolution of "Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel war" BWV 80/5 Daniel R. Melamed, Indiana University Bach and Mozart: From the Perspective of Different Documentary Evidence Hans-Joachim Schulze, Bach-Archiv Leipzig On Johann Sebastian Bach's Creative Process: Observations from His Drafts and Sketches Peter Wollny, Bach-Archiv Leipzig One More Time: Mozart and His Cadenzas Neal Zaslaw, Cornell University Issues in Historiography On Ancient Languages: The Historical Idiom in the Music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ulrich Konrad, Institut fur Musikwissenschaft der Universitat Wurzburg Eighteenth-Century Music as a Socio-Political Metaphor? Reinhard Strohm, University of Oxford The Century of Handel and Haydn James Webster, Cornell University Mozart's Fantasy, Haydn's Caprice: What's in a Name? Gretchen Wheelock, Eastman School of Music Interpreting Eighteenth-Century Music The Clavier Speaks Christopher Hogwood, Academy of Ancient Music Ten Years of Bach Cantatas Ton Koopman, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir Mozart's Working Methods in the Piano Concertos Robert Levin, Harvard University

Every reader will have his or her own favorite essays in this exemplary collection… [It] makes a major contribution to l8th-century studies as well as music.