Music and society in the late-Baroque era, George J. Buelow; Rome - the power of patronage, Malcolm Boyd; Venice in an era of political decline, Eleanor Selfridge-Field; Naples - a city of entertainment, Carolyn Gianturco; Paris and Versailles, Julie A. Sadie; Hamburg and Luebeck, George J. Buelow; Brandenburg-Prussia and the Central German courts, Bernd Baselt; Leipzig - a cosmopolitan trade centre, George B. Stauffer; courts and monasteries in Bavaria, Robert Muenster; Vienna under Joseph I and Charles VI, Susan Wollenberg; London - commercial wealth and cultural expansion, Donald Burrows; The Dutch Republic, Rudolf Rasch; the Iberian Peninsula, Louise K. Stein.
