Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Recordings -- Sonata, symphony and opera in the early classic period -- The late eighteenth century: Haydn and Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Romanticism and nineteenth -century orchestral music -- Solo, chamber, and vocal music in the nineteenth century -- Opera and music drama in the nineteenth century -- European music from the 1780s to world war I -- European maistream in the twentieth century -- Atonality, serialism and recent developments in twentieth-century europe -- The American Twntieth century -- Appendixes and Indexes.…”

Table of Contents: “…Making Connections: How to use this antology -- Acknowledgments -- Recordings -- The eighteenth century -- Opera and vocal music in the early classic period -- Instrumental music: sonata, symphony, and concerto at midcentury -- Classic music in the late eighteenth century -- The nineteenth century -- Revolution and Change -- The Romantic generation: song and piano music -- Romanticism in Classic Forms: orchestral, chamber, and Choral music -- Romantic Opera and musical theater to Midcentury -- Opera and musical theather in the later nineteenth century -- Late romanticism in Germany and Australia -- Diverging traditions in the Later Nineteenth century -- The twentieth century and afer -- The early twentieth century -- Modernism and the Classical Tradition -- Between the World Wars: Jazz and popular music -- Between the world wars: The classsical tradition -- Postwar Crosscurrents -- The end of the millennium -- 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.…”