Prelude. The musical map of Europe c. 1700 / Music for the church. Catholic church music in Italy, and the Spanish and Portuguese Empires / Catholic sacred music in Austria / Catholic church music in France / Lutheran church music / Protestant church music in England and America / Listening, thinking and writing / Music for the theatre. Italian opera in the eighteenth century / Opera in Paris from Campra to Rameau / An instinct for parody and a spirit for revolution : Parisian opera, 1752-1800 / German opera from Reinhard Keiser to Peter Winter / The lure of aria, procession and spectacle : opera in eighteenth-century London / Music theatre in Spain / Opera in Sweden / Performance in the eighteenth century / Music for the salon and concert room. Keyboard music from Couperin to early Beethoven / The serenata in the eighteenth century / Private music in public spheres : chamber cantata and song / Handel and English oratorio / The overture-suite, concerto grosso, ripieno concerto, and Harmoniemusik in the eighteenth century / Concerto of the individual / Eighteenth-century symphonies : an unfinished dialogue / The string quartet / Across the divide : currents of musical thought in Europe, c. 1790-1810 / Chronology ; Institutions in major European cities ; Personalia / David Black.