Ⅰ.The State of Music at the End of the Ancient World

Ⅱ.Gregorian Chant and Secular Song in the Middle Ages

Ⅲ.The Beginnings of Polyphony and the Music of the Thirteenth Century

Ⅳ.French and ltalian Music of the Fourteenth Century

Ⅴ.Medieval to Renaissance:English Music and the Burgundian School in the Fifteenth Century

Ⅵ.The Age of the Renaissance:Ockeghem to Josquin

Ⅶ.New Currents in the Sixteenth Century

Ⅷ.Church Music and Instrumental Music in the Late Renaissance

Ⅸ.Early Baroque Music

Ⅹ.The Mature Baroque:Vocal Music

Ⅺ.The Mature Baroque:Instrumental Music

Ⅻ.The Early Eighteenth Century

ⅩⅢ.Sources of Classical Style:The Sonata,Symphony,and Opera in the Eighteenth Century

ⅩⅣ.The Late Eighteenth Century

ⅩⅤ.Ludwig van Beethoven(1770-1827)

ⅩⅥ.The Nineteenth Century:Romanticism;Vocal Music

ⅩⅦ.The Nineteenth Century:Instrumental Music

ⅩⅧ.The Nineteenth Century:Opera and Music-Drama

ⅪⅩ.The End of an Era

ⅩⅩ.The Twentieth Century

Glossary

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Chronology

Index