Ⅰ.The State of Music at the End of the Ancient World 1
Ⅱ.Gregorian Chant and Secular Song in the Middle Ages 35
Ⅲ.The Beginnings of Polyphony and the Music of the Thirteenth Century 75
Ⅳ.French and ltalian Music of the Fourteenth Century 116
Ⅴ.Medieval to Renaissance:English Music and the Burgundian School in the Fifteenth Century 146
Ⅵ.The Age of the Renaissance:Ockeghem to Josquin 172
Ⅶ.New Currents in the Sixteenth Century 207
Ⅷ.Church Music and Instrumental Music in the Late Renaissance 252
Ⅸ.Early Baroque Music 293
Ⅹ.The Mature Baroque:Vocal Music 341
Ⅺ.The Mature Baroque:Instrumental Music 374
Ⅻ.The Early Eighteenth Century 402
ⅩⅢ.Sources of Classical Style:The Sonata,Symphony,and Opera in the Eighteenth Century 447
ⅩⅣ.The Late Eighteenth Century 476
ⅩⅤ.Ludwig van Beethoven(1770-1827) 512
ⅩⅥ.The Nineteenth Century:Romanticism;Vocal Music 537
ⅩⅦ.The Nineteenth Century:Instrumental Music 559
ⅩⅧ.The Nineteenth Century:Opera and Music-Drama 595
ⅪⅩ.The End of an Era 618
ⅩⅩ.The Twentieth Century 662
Glossary 729
Abbreviations 736
Bibliography 738
Chronology 776
Index 800