Performance and musicology / The aesthetics of stage fright -- The discipline of philology: oliver strunk -- The eighteenth century / Keyboard music of bach and handel -- The rediscovering of haydn -- Describing mozart -- Beaumarchais: inventor of morden opera - Radical, conventional mozart -- Beethoven's career -- Brahms/ Brahms: influence, plagiarism, and inspiration -- Brahms the subversive -- Brahms: classicism and the inspiration of Awkardness -- Musical studies: contrasting views / The benefits of authenticity -- Dictionaries: the old harvard -- Dictionaries: the new grove's -- The new musicology -- The crisis of the modern / Schoenberg: the possibilities of disquiet -- The performance of contemporary music: carter's double concerto -- The irrelevance of serious music