| ARTICLES | |
| Eric McKee | Alternative Meanings in the First Movement of Beethoven's String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127: Emergence and Growth from Stagnation and Decline, pp. 1–28 |
| Lauri Suurpää | Programmatic Aspects of the Second Sonata of Haydn's Seven Last Words, pp. 29–56 |
| Daphne Leong | Metric Conflict in the First Movement
of Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. pp. 57–90 1999 MTSNYS Emerging Scholar Award |
| Nicholas Cook | Henrich Schenker, Modernist: Detail, Difference, and Analysis, pp. 91–106 |
| William Benjamin | Schenker's Theory and Virgil's Construction of the World, pp. 107–16 |
| William Pastille | Music and Life: Some Lessons, pp. 117–20 |
| REVIEW | |
| Gerald A. Krumbholz | A. B. Marx, Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven: Selected Writings on Theory and Method. Edited and translated by Scott Burnham (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 121–36 |