Introduction

• The History of Music in General

Part I. Uncivilized and Ancient Music

Chapter

• I. Primitive or Savage Music
• II. Semi-Civilized Music
• III. Greek and Roman Music

Part II. Mediæval Music

• IV. The Rise of Christian Music
• V. Polyphony and Secular Song
• VI. The Fifteenth Century

Part III. The Sixteenth Century

• VII. The Venetian and Roman Schools
• VIII. Church Music in Northern and Western Europe
• IX. Secular Music. Instruments. Theory

Part IV. The Seventeenth Century

• X. The Early Musical Drama
• XI. The Expansion of Dramatic Music
• XII. Progress in Church Music
• XIII. The Organ Style
• XIV. The Violin. Musical Literature

Part V. The Early Eighteenth Century

• XV. Church Music in Bach's Time
• XVI. The Culmination of the Early Italian Opera
• XVII. Instruments and Instrumentalists
• XVIII. Forms of Composition. Theory. Literature.

Part VI. The Later Eighteenth Century

• XIX. Haydn. The Sonata and the Orchestra
• XX. Gluck and the Dramatic Reform
• XXI. Mozart and the Exaltation of Melody
• XXII. The Rise of Pianism. Sacred Music.
• XXIII. Theoretical and Literary Progress

Part VII. The Early Nineteenth Century

• XXIV. The Advent of Beethoven
• XXV. The Romantic Opera and the Song
• XXVI. Italian and French Opera
• XXVII. Instrumental Virtuosity
• XXVIII. Church and Organ Music
• XXIX. Growth of Musical Literature

Part VIII. The Middle Nineteenth Century

• XXX. Schumann and Romanticism
• XXXI. Mendelssohn and the Leipsic Circle
• XXXII. New Lights upon Pianism
• XXXIII. The Opera Aside from Wagner
• XXXIV. Wagner and the Reconstruction of the Opera
• XXXV. Symphonists and Instrumentalists
• XXXVI. Choral Music. The Song. The English School
• XXXVII. Musical Education and Literature

Conclusion

• Brief Sketch of the Later Nineteenth Century

• Index of Subjects and Places
• Index of Persons