xiv, 618 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

1. Music in ancient Greece and early Christian Rome -- 2. Chant and secular song in the Middle Ages, 400-1450 -- 3. Polyphonic music from its beginnings through the thirteenth century -- 4. French and Italian music in the fourteenth century -- 5. England and the Burgundian lands in the fifteenth cen...

9. Music of the early Baroque period -- 10. Opera and vocal music in the late seventeenth century -- 11. Instrumental music in the late Baroque period -- 12. music in the early eighteenth century -- 13. The early classical period: opera and instrumental music in the eighteenth century -- 14. The lat...

18. Opera, music drama, and chuch music in the nineteenth century -- 19. European music from the 1870s to World war I -- 20. The European mainstream in the twentieth century -- 21. Antonality, serialism, and recent developments in twentieth-century Europe -- 22. The American twentieth century.