"In honor of Christoph Wolff."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.