Schlimbach wrote extensively on church music, Luther's musical contribution, the role of instrumental music and instrumentalists in the church, the Cos fan tutte libretto, the Berlin organist and teacher Abb Vogler, and the technique of organ playing. The theologian Karl Gottlob Horstig wrote on German folk song, while Johann Friedrich Werneburg, a professor of mathematics and philosophy at the University of G ttingen contributed a series of articles on the role and philosophy of music criticism. Achim von Arnim, presented his view of folk music in an 1805 series immediately before publishing Des Knaben Wunderhorn . Jacob Salomon Bartholdy, an uncle of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, contributed an article on Silesian folk music. Christian Friedrich Michaelis, professor of metaphysics and aesthetics at the University of Leipzig, and one of the first authors to apply Kant's aesthetics to music, expressed his ideas in articles on the beautiful and the sublime in music.
Many issues contain reviews of published music in which piano and vocal music predominate.