A history of western music

The state of music at the end of the ancient world

Chant and secular song in the middle ages

The beginnings of polyphony and the music of the thirteenth century

French and Italian music of the fourteenth century

Medieval to renaissance : music of England

The age of the renaissance : Ockeghem to Josquin

New currents in the sixteenth century

Church music in the late renaissance

Music of the early baroque period

Opera and vocal music in the late sixteenth century

Instrumental music in the late baroque period

The early eighteenth century

Sources of the classic style : the sonata, symphony, and opera in the eighteenth century

The late eighteenth century

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

The nineteenth century : romanticism ; vocal music

The nineteenth century : instrumental music

The nineteenth century : opera and music drama

The end of an era

The twentieth century.