The century of Bach and Mozart: perspectives on historiography, composition, theory, and performance

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.