Table of Contents: “…Making Connections: How to use this anthology -- Acknowledgments -- Recordings -- The Ancient and Medieval worlds -- Music in Antiquity -- Roman Liturgy and Chant -- Song and Dance Music in the Middle Ages -- Poly phony through the Thirteenth Century -- French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century -- The Renaissance -- England and Burgundy in The Fifteenth Century -- Franco-Flemish Composers, 1450-1520 -- Sacred music in the Era of the Reformation -- Madrigal and Secular song in the Sixteenth Century -- The Rise of instrumental music -- The seventeenth century -- New styles in the seventeenth century -- The invention of opera -- Music for Chamber and Church in The Early Seventeenth Century -- France, England, Spain, and the New World in the Seventeenth Century -- Italy and Germany in the Late Seventeenth Century -- The eighteenth century -- The early eighteenth Century in Italy and France -- German Composers of the Late Baroque -- Appendixes and Indexes.…”