1. Musicology beyond historicism: Epistemological implications and scope of John Walter Hill's cognate music theory Ignacio Prats-Arolas Part I: Framing concepts 2. Cognate music theory John Walter Hill 3. Insiders and outsiders: Revisiting Indigenous musical thought Bruno Nettl Part II: Syntax, form, and genre 4. Heinrich Christoph Koch's description of the Andantino e cantabile in Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 42 as a response to recent sonata theories Gregory Hellenbrand 5. Artisanal knowledge as a cognate music theory: Reading a partimento Robert Gjerdingen 6. Intersections of biography, analysis, and performance: Beethoven at Heiligenstadt in 1802 William Kinderman 7. A cognate theory of generic classification in the Airs serieux et a boire of Sebastien de Brossard Kenneth Smith Part III: Rhetoric and emotions 8. Ripa's Iconologia as a source for musical rhetoric of the seventeenth century Barbara Russano Hanning 9. The language of emotions from Descartes to Metastasio Alvaro Torrente and Jose Maria Dominguez Part IV: Timbre, color, and temperament 10. "Quegli strumenti, che erano piu atti a far proporzionata accompagnatura al balletto a cavallo": Envisioning a cognate theory of instrumental timbre in early modern Florence Kelley Harness 11. "Energie des modes":Tuning and temperament in seventeenth-century France Charlotte Mattax Moersch 12. "Il cembalo de' colori, e la musica degli occhi": Francesco Algarotti and a cognate concept of music in the age of the Enlightenment Bella Brover-Lubovsky Part V: Historical sources and cultural hermeneutics 13. Insider and outsider views in early modern correspondence involving patrons and musicians Dinko Fabris 14. Anthropology, music, and theater in a seventeenth-century year Robert L. Kendrick 15. Song about song, music about life: Herder on music's transcendent moment Philip V. Bohlman. Index