Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Recordings -- Musical life and Thought in Ancient Greece -- Chant and Secular song in the middle ages -- The beginnings of Polyphony and the Music od the Thirteenth Century -- French and Italian muisc in the fourteenth century -- England and 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 baroque period -- Music in the Early eighteenth century -- Appendixes and indexes.…”

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.…”

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.…”