"In honor of Christoph Wolff"--Jacket.
Part I. Eighteenth-century music in its intellectual contexts. The German eighteenth century : marking time / David Blackbourn
Fundamenta partiturae : thorough bass and foundations of eighteenth-century composition pedagogy / Thomas Christensen
Mishmash or synthesis? : on the psychagogic form of The creation / Hermann Danuse ; (translated by Nicolas Betson)
Six of one : the opus concept in the eighteenth century / Elaine Sisman
Part II. Composing and hearing music in the eighteenth century. Bach's passions and the textures of time / John Butt
Bach and hypocrisy : appearance and truth in Cantatas 136 and 179 / Eric Chafe
Tartini and his texts / Sergio Durate
Part III. Sources.and transmission. The evolution of "Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel wär" BWV 80/5 / Daniel R. Melamed
Bach and Mozart : from the perspective of different documentary evidence / Hans-Joachim Schulze
On Johann Sebastian Bach's creative process : observations from his drafts and sketches / Peter Wollny
One more time : Mozart and his cadenzas / Neal Zaslaw
Part IV. Issues in historiography. On ancient languages : the historical idiom in the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Ulrich Konrad ; (translated by Thomas Irvine)
Eighteenth-century music as a socio-political metaphor? / Reinhard Strohm
The century of Handel and Haydn / James Webster
Mozart's fantasy, Haydn's caprice : what's in a name? / Gretchen Wheelock
Part V. Interpreting eighteenth-century music. The clavier speaks / Christopher Hogwood
Ten years of Bach cantatas / Ton Koopman
Mozart's working methods in the piano concertos / Robert Levin.
The century of Bach and Mozart : perspectives on historiography, composition, theory, and performance. ISBN 9780964031739. Published by Harvard University Department of Music in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.