| ARTICLES | |
| Lawrence M. Zbikowski | Des Herzraums Abschied: Mark Johnson's Theory of Embodied Knowledge and Music Theory, pp. 1–16 |
| Janna K. Saslaw | Life Forces: Conceptual Structures in Schenker's Free Composition and Schoenberg's The Musical Idea, pp. 17–34 |
| Candace Brower | Pathway, Blockage, and Containment in Density 21.5, pp. 35–54 |
| Steve Larson | Musical Forces and Melodic Patterns, pp. 55–72 |
| Andrew Mead | Shedding Scales: Understanding Intervals in Different Musical Contexts, pp. 73–94 |
| Mark L. Johnson | Embodied Musical Meaning, pp. 95–102 |
| Matthew Santa | Chordal Tone Centers in Stravinsky's
Neoclassic Music, pp. 103–22 1998 MTSNYS Young Scholar Award winner |
| REVIEW-ESSAY | |
| Dora A. Hanninen | Andrew Mead, An Introduction to the Music of Milton Babbitt (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), pp. 123–46 |
| REVIEW | |
| Daniel Harrison | First Thoughts about the Second Practice. The Second Practice of Nineteenth-Century Tonality, Edited by William Kinderman and Harald Krebs (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996), pp. 147–62 |