Essays dealing with the controversial concept of the work', and how far social and cultural practices are integral to it.

Laudatio - Pierluigi PetrobelliAnonymous Arabic Treatises on Music: Lost Legacies, Hidden Answers - Amnon ShiloahCompositional Practices in Trecento Music: Model Books and Musical Traditions - Anna Maria Busse BergerTrompetta and Concordans Parts in the Early Fifteenth Century - Margaret BentRecording for Posterity: Some Reflections on the Memorialising of Early Renaissance Music - Edward WickhamHow to Sin in Music: Doctor Navarrus on Sixteenth-Century Singers - Bonnie BlackburnTraditions and Practices in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Sacred Polyphony: The Use of Solo Voices with Instrumental Accompaniment - Elena QuarantaTraditions and Practices in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Sacred Polyphony: The Use of Solo Voices with Instrumental Accompaniment - David Bryant`The City Full of Grief': Music for the Exequies of King Philip IIGiovanni Alberto Ristori and his Serenate at the Polish Court of Augustus III, 1735-1746 - Alina Zorawska-Witkowska`Cantate, que me veux-tu?' or: Do Handel's Cantatas Matter? - Ellen T. HarrisTwo Koechel Numbers, One Work - Christopher WolffIdentity and Poetic Style: The Case of Rosmene by Giueseppe Domenico de Totis - Norbert DubowyHow Operatic is Vivaldi's Juditha triumphans? - Michael TalbotVenice and the East: Operatic Readings of Tasso's Armida in Early Eighteenth-Century Venice - Melania BucciarelliLiterary Motifs in Metastasio's and Jommelli's Ciro riconosciuto - Francesca Menchelli-ButtiniProducing Stars in Dramma per musicaThe Pre-revolutionary Origins of `Terrorisme musical' - Michel NoirayPieces into Works: Chrubini's Substitute Arias for the Théâtre Feydeau - Michael FendAt the Tavern with Manzoni and Verdi: I promessi sposi and the Dramaturgy of La forza del destino - Emanuele SeinciThe Acoustic Proximity of Temporal Distance: Auratic Sonority in Mahler's Leider eines fahrenden Gesellen - Federico CelestiniCreating a Concept of `Nazi Musicology' - Pamela PotterEt in Arcadia adhuc: Observations on the Continuing Evolution of the `Pastoral Idea' - Giovanni MorelliReinhard Strohm: List of Publications - Janet Smith