Table of Contents: “…Musical life and thought in Ancient Greece -- Chant and secular song in the middle ages -- The beginnings of poluphony and the music of the thirteenth century -- French and italian music in the fourteenth century -- England and the Burgundian lands in the fifteenth century -- The age of the renaissance: music of the low countries -- New currents in the sixteenth century -- Church music of the late renaissance and reformation -- Music of the early baroque period -- Opera and vocal music in the late seventeenth century -- Instrumental music in the Late baorque period -- Music in the early eighteenth century -- Sonata, Symphony, and Opera in the Early classic period -- The late eighteenth century: Haydn and Mozart -- Ludwig van Bethoven -- Romanticism and nineteenth-century orchestral music -- Solo, chamber, and vocal music in the nineteenth century -- European music from the 1870s to World War I -- The European mainstream in the twentieth century -- Atonali, serialism, and recent developments in twentieth-century europe -- The American Twentith century.…”