- Prefatory note
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction: The History of Music in General
- Primitive or Savage Music
- Semi-Civilized Music
- Greek and Roman Music
- The Rise of Christian Music
- Polyphony and Secular Song
- The Fifteenth Century
- The Venetian and Roman Schools
- Church Music in Northern and Western Europe
- Secular Music. Instruments. Theory
- The Early Musical Drama
- The Expansion of Dramatic Music
- Progress in Church Music
- The Organ Style
- The Violin. Musical Literature
- Church Music in Bach's Time
- The Culmination of the Early Italian Opera
- Instruments and Instrumentalists
- Forms of Composition. Theory. Literature.
- Haydn. The Sonata and the Orchestra
- Gluck and the Dramatic Reform
- Mozart and the Exaltation of Melody
- The Rise of Pianism. Sacred Music.
- Theoretical and Literary Progress
- The Advent of Beethoven
- The Romantic Opera and the Song
- Italian and French Opera
- Instrumental Virtuosity
- Church and Organ Music
- Growth of Musical Literature
- Schumann and Romanticism
- Mendelssohn and the Leipsic Circle
- New Lights upon Pianism
- The Opera Aside from Wagner
- Wagner and the Reconstruction of the Opera
- Symphonists and Instrumentalists
- Choral Music. The Song. The English School
- Musical Education and Literature
- Brief Sketch of the Later Nineteenth Century
- Index of Subjects and Places
- Index of Persons
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