1: The Encyclopedic Century

The Eighteenth-Century Symphony, ed. Mary Sue Morrow and Bathia Churgin (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012) Worldcat

Essays on Opera, 1750–1800, ed. John A. Rice (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010) Worldcat

Fubini, Enrico. Music and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994)

Head, Matthew. Sovereign Feminine: Music and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013) Worldcat

Heartz, Daniel. Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School, 1740–1780 (New York: Norton, 1995) Worldcat

Heartz, Daniel. Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style, 1720–1780 (New York: Norton, 2003) Worldcat

Heartz, Daniel. From Garrick to Gluck: Essays on Opera in the Age of Enlightenment, ed. John A. Rice (Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon, 2004) Worldcat

Heartz, Daniel. Mozart, Haydn, and Early Beethoven, 1781–1802 (New York: Norton: 2009) Worldcat

Hunter, David. "Handel and the Royal African Company," on the AMS blog Musicology Now (14 June 2015)

Hunter, David. "The Beckfords in England and Italy: A Case Study in the Musical Uses of the Profits of Slavery, Early Music, Volume 46, Issue 2, 19 July 2018, Pages 285–298, https://doi.org/10.1093/em/cay017

Jacob, Margaret C. The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001)

Outram, Dorinda. Panorama of the Enlightenment (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006)

The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory, ed. Danuta Mirka (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) Worldcat

Pagden, Anthony. The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) Worldcat

Rice, John A. "Music in the Age of Coffee," Eighteenth-Century Music 4 (2007), 301–305 Also accessible on academia.edu

Rice, John A. "Music and the Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century": Hollander Distinguished Lecture in Musicology, Michigan State University, 15 March 2013 https://sites.google.com/site/johnaricecv/music-and-the-grand-tour

Taruskin, Richard. The Oxford History of Western Music, vol. 2: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005) Worldcat

Webster, James. “Between Enlightenment and Romanticism in Music History: First Viennese Modernism and the Delayed Nineteenth Century,” 19th-Century Music 25 (2001): 108–26 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/ncm.2001.25.2-3.108

Webster, James. “The Eighteenth Century as a Music-Historical Period?” Eighteenth-Century Music 1 (2004): 47–60 http://dx.doi.org/DOI:10.1017/S147857060400003X

Withers, Charles W. J. Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007)