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$26.75Contents
- 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