This special issue of Mosaic explores the seemingly inescapable relationship between music and words in twelve exciting essays. Guest-edited by John Rempel and Ursula Rempel, this issue celebrates the tercentennial of the births of Bach and Handel, yet it includes essays on all aspects of music/literature relationships, including authoring, receiving, analyzing, and theorizing. Though not exclusively, most of the essays in this issue focus on the eighteenth or twentieth centuries.