Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 – Setting the Scene
• Periods In Music
• The Orchestra
• Public Concerts
• Sonata Form
• The Symphony and Concerto
• Chapter 2 – The Eighteenth Century
• Bach, Handel and Vivaldi
• Haydn and Mozart
• Chapter 3 – The Age of Beethoven
• Chapter 4 – The Nineteenth Century (Part I)
• Schubert
• Rossini, Weber and Paganini
• Berlioz
• Mendelssohn
• Schumann
• Chopin and Liszt
• Chapter 5 – The Nineteenth Century (Part II)
• Wagner
• Bruckner
• Brahms
• Tchaikovsky
• Dvorák
• The Five and other Russians
• Other nineteenth century Romantics and Nationalists
• Chapter 6 – The Twentieth Century (Part I)
• Debussy
• Ravel
• Janácek and other Eastern European Nationalists
• Elgar
• Mahler
• Richard Strauss
• Sibelius
• Nielsen
• Rachmaninov
• Chapter 7 – The Twentieth Century (Part II)
• The Second Viennese School – Schoenberg, Berg and Webern
• Ives
• Stravinsky
• Bartók
• Other Northern Europeans and Americans
• Southern Europeans and Latin Americans
• Vaughan Williams and the British School after Elgar
• Walton, Tippett and Britten
• Messiaen and the French School after Debussy
• Prokofiev
• Hindemith
• Shostakovich
• Gershwin and the American Dream
• Copland, Carter, Barber and Bernstein
• Other Americans born before 1920
• Other Americans born after 1920
• Post-War Experimental Pioneers
• Lutoslawski, Ligeti, Penderecki, and others born before 1950
• Chapter 8 – Into the Millennium
• Suggested Further Reading
• Index