Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE TO THE READER -- INTRODUCTION -- Character and characteristic -- Music and language -- Representing character -- 1 Paradise lost: Dittersdorf's Four Ages of the World and the crisis of Austrian enlightened despotism -- Gold: paradise in music -- Silver: drama as tableau -- Brass: drama as feeling -- Iron: symphonies and history -- 2 Preaching without words: Reform Catholicism versus divine mystery in Haydn's Seven Last Words -- Pastoral symphonies and the rhetoric of emotion -- The "Seven Last Words" and the enlightened Christ -- Wordless music, unfathomable harmony, and the divine -- 3 The boundaries of the art: characteristic music in contemporary criticism and aesthetics -- Tone-painting versus expression -- Imitation and the ineffable -- 4 Paradise regained: time, morality, and humanity in Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony -- An unsettling storm -- Form, genre, and time -- An idyll redeemed -- The humanity of the "Pastoral" Symphony -- 5 Making memories: symphonies of war, death, and celebration -- The war of soldiers -- The war of heroes -- Death -- Celebration -- Appendixes -- CATALOGUES AND INDEXES -- RISM LIBRARY SIGLA -- APPENDIX 1 Index of characteristic symphonies -- Beecke, Ignaz von (1733-1803) -- Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805) -- Brunetti, Gaetano (1744-98) -- Cambini, Giuseppe Maria (c. 1746 - c. 1825) -- Camerloher, Placidus von (1718-82) or Joseph Anton (1710-43) -- Croubelis, Simoni dall (c. 1727 - c. 1790) -- Dall'Oglio, Domenico (1700-64) -- Devienne, François (1759-1803) -- Dittersdorf, Carl Ditters von (1739-99) -- Donninger, Ferdinand (1716-81) -- Druschetzky, Georg [Družecky, Jirí] (1745-1819) -- Gassmann, Florian Leopold (1729-74) -- Gleissner, Franz Johannes (1759-1818) -- Gossec, François-Joseph (1734-1829).

Graf [Graaf], Christian Ernst (1723-1804) -- Grenser, Johann Friedrich (1758-95) -- Hauff, Ferdinand (d. 1812) -- Haydn, (Johann) Michael (1737-1806) -- Hoffmeister, Franz Anton (1754-1812) -- Holzbauer, Ignaz (1711-83) -- Kauer, Ferdinand (1751-1831) -- Klöffler, Johann Friedrich (1725-90) -- Knecht, Justin Heinrich (1752-1817) -- Kospoth, Otto Karl Endmann (1753-1817) -- Kozeluch [Koželuh], Leopold (1747-1818) -- Kraus, Joseph Martin (1756-92) -- Marsh, John (1752-1828) -- Mašek, Vincenz [Václav] (1755-1831) -- Massonneau, Louis (1766-1848) -- Moreno, Francisco Javier (1748-1836) -- Mozart, Leopold (1719-87) -- Navoigille, Guillaume (c. 1745-1811) -- Neubauer, Franz Christoph (ca. 1760-95) -- Pichl, Václav [Pichel, Wenzel] (1741-1805) -- Raimondi, Ignazio (c. 1735-1813) -- Reichardt, Johann Friedrich (1752-1814) -- Richter, Franz Xaver (1709-89) -- Ries, Ferdinand (1784-1838) -- Romberg, Andreas Jakob (1767-1821) -- Romberg, Bernhard Heinrich (1767-1841) -- Rosetti, Antonio [Rösler, Anton] (c. 1750-92) -- Ruge, Filippo (c. 1725 - after 1767) -- Sandel, Matthias (1740-1816) -- Schmitt, Joseph (1734-91) -- Schmittbauer, Joseph Aloys (1718-1809) -- Stamitz, Carl (1745-1801) -- Stamitz, Johann (1717-57) -- Sterkel, Johann Franz Xaver (1750-1817) -- Süßmayr, Franz Xaver (1766-1803) -- Vancura, Arnošt [Wanczura, Ernest] (c. 1750-1802) -- Vandenbroek, Othon Joseph (1758-1832) -- Vanhal [Wanhal], Johann Baptist [Jan Krtitel] (1739-1813) -- Veichtner, Franz Adam (1741-1822) -- Vogler, Georg Joseph (1749-1814) -- Volder, Pierre Jean de (1767-1841) -- Wineberger, Paul Anton (1758-1822) -- Winter [von Winter], Peter (1754-1825) -- Witt, Friedrich (1770-1836) -- Wranitzky, Anton [Vranický, Antonín] (1761-1820) -- Wranitzky, Paul [Vranický, Pavel] (1756-1808) -- Zimmermann, Anton (c. 1741-81) -- APPENDIX 2 Pastoral symphonies and movements.

APPENDIX 3 Symphonies and movements by subject -- a Military and related -- b Hunts -- c Storms -- d National and regional styles and dances -- e Battles -- f Symphonies based on literature, biblical texts, or extended original scenarios -- g Emotions and "moral characters" -- h Mourning -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.