Historical proximity : John Wesley visits Leipzig in 1738 / by Mark Noll -- Dancing in Bach's time : sin or permissible pleasure? / by Joyce L. Irwin -- A Catholic hymnal for use in Lutheran Leipzig : Catholisches Gesang-Buch (Leipzig, 1724) / by Robin A. Leaver -- Liturgical music for a new elector : origins of Bach's 1733 Missa revisited / by Janice B. Stockigt -- Bach's Christmas oratorio and the mystical theology of Bernard of Clairvaux / by Markus Rathey -- The church under persecution : Bach's Cantatas for the fourth Sunday after Epiphany / by Derek Stauff -- Music historicism : Sara Levy and the Jewish enlightenment / by Rebecca Cypress