Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- 1 Music as history -- Introduction -- The nature and development of historical awareness -- Influential reworkings of Bach and Handel -- Historical considerations -- The pioneers: individuals and institutions -- The role of musical expression -- Arguments pro and con -- Post-war philosophies -- Period Mozart and beyond -- The current scene -- 2 The application of primary sources -- Surviving instruments -- Iconographical sources -- Historical archives -- Literary sources -- Practical treatises - uses and limitations -- Practical treatises - a summary -- Theoretical treatises -- The importance of communication -- The role of editions -- Musical taste -- 3 Changes in musical style -- National idioms -- Articulation -- Melodic inflection -- Accentuation -- Tempo -- Rhythmic alteration -- Overdotting -- Rhythmic synchronisation -- Notes inégales -- Ornamentation -- Extempore embellishment -- Improvisation -- Continuo accompaniment -- 4 Conditions and practices -- Introduction -- Pitch -- Temperament -- Vocal practices -- Venues and programmes -- Orchestral constitution and placement -- Direction -- Nineteenth-century changes -- 5 Case studies in ensemble music -- J.S.Bach:St Matthew Passion BWV 244 -- Text and edition -- Direction -- Performing forces -- Pitch -- Placement of performing forces -- Vocal style and performance -- Recitatives -- Chorales -- Other interpretative observations (articulation and expression) -- W.A.Mozart:Serenade for 13 instruments K361 -- Introduction -- Mozart and Harmoniemusik -- The premiere of K361 -- Sources and dating -- Editions -- Instruments -- Towards an historical approach -- Berlioz: Episode de la vie d'un Artiste, Symphonie Fantastique en cinq parties Op.14 -- Introduction -- Editions.

Timbre, instrumentation and orchestral balance -- Stringed instruments -- Wind instruments (general) -- Woodwind instruments -- Brass instruments -- Percussion -- Distribution of the orchestra -- Notation -- Tempo considerations -- Brahms:Symphony No. 2 in D major Op.73 -- Introduction -- Sources -- Orchestral size and placement -- Instruments and orchestral sonority -- Tempo, flexibility and nuance -- 6 The continuing debate -- The social position of historical music -- A snapshot from 1983 -- Authenticity and Early Music -- The 1990s -- The future? -- Notes -- 1 Music as history -- 2 The application of primary sources -- 3 Changes in musical style -- 4 Conditions and practices -- 5 Case studies in ensemble music -- Bach: St Matthew Passion -- Mozart: Serenade K361 -- Berlioz: Episode de la vie d'un Artiste, Symphonie Fantastique en cinque parties Op.14 -- Brahms: Symphony No. 2 Op. 73 -- 6 The continuing debate -- Select bibliography -- Pre-1900 -- Post-1900 -- Index.