This collection of nine essays investigates the consumption of music during the long eighteenth century, providing insights into the activities of composers, performers, patrons, publishers, theorists, impresarios, and critics.

Emily H. Green, Catherine Mayes

Introduction
Music's First Consumers: Publishers in the Late Eighteenth Century
Inside a Viennese Kunsthandlung: Artaria in 1784
Morality and the "Fair-Sexing" of Telemann's Faithful Music Master
Eighteenth-Century Mediations of Music Theory: Meter, Tempo, and Affect in Print
Musical Style as Commercial Strategy in Romantic Chamber Music
In Vienna "Only Waltzes Get Printed": The Decline and Transformation of the Contredanse Hongroise in the Early Nineteenth Century
The Power to Please: Gender and Celebrity Self-Commodification in the Early American Republic
Exchanging Ideas in a Changing World: Adolph Bernhard Marx and the Berliner allgemeine musikalische Zeitung in 1824
Parisian Opera between Commons and Commodity, ca. 1830
Contributors
Index