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| Prologue: Antiquity | |
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| Music in the Biblical World | |
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| Ancient Greece | |
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| Music in the Roman Empire | |
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| The Musical Legacies of Antiquity | |
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| The Medieval Era | |
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| Prelude to Part I | |
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| Plainchant and Secular Monophony | |
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| The Emergence of Plainchant | |
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| The Elements of Plainchant | |
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| The Expansion of Plainchant | |
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| Secular Monophony | |
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| Polyphony to 1300 | |
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| Organum | |
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| Clausula | |
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| Motet | |
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| Conductus | |
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| Mensural Notation | |
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| Music in the 14th Century | |
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| France: The Ars Nova | |
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| Italy: The Trecento | |
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| England | |
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| Instrumental Music | |
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| Music of the Renaissance | |
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| Prelude to Part II | |
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| Renaissance Humanism | |
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| The Protestant Reformation | |
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| Renaissance Painting and Sculpture | |
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| Music in Renaissance Society | |
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| The Emergence of Renaissance Style | |
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| Consonance and Dissonance: Trusting the Ear | |
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| Sonority: The Contenance Angloise | |
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| Texture: Pervading Imitation | |
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| Josquin's Ave Maria...virgo serena and the Style of the Renaissance | |
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| The Genres of Renaissance Music, 1420-1520 | |
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| Sacred Vocal Music | |
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| Secular Vocal Music | |
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| Instrumental Music | |
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| Music in the 16th Century | |
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| Secular Vocal Music | |
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| Sacred Vocal Music | |
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| Instrumental Music in the 16th Century | |
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| Mannerism | |
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| The Baroque Era | |
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| Prelude to Part III | |
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| War, Revolution, and Colonial Expansion | |
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| The Scientific Revolution | |
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| The Musical Baroque | |
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| The New Practice | |
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| Searching for the Secrets of Ancient Greek Music | |
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| The Florentine Camerata | |
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| The Seconda Prattica | |
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| Music in the Baroque Era: A Stylistic Overview | |
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| Vocal Music, 1600-1650 | |
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| Secular Song | |
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| Opera | |
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| Sacred Music | |
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| Vocal Music, 1600-1750 | |
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| Opera | |
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| Sacred Music | |
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| Conceptions of the Compositional Process | |
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| Instrumental Music, 1650-1750 | |
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| Instruments of the Baroque Era | |
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| Instrumental Genres of the Baroque Era | |
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| The Classical Era | |
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| Prelude to Part IV | |
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| The Age of Enlightenment | |
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| War and Revolution | |
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| The Industrial Revolution | |
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| Music in Enlightenment Society | |
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| The Art of the Natural | |
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| Music and the Idea of Nature | |
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| Music in the Classical Era: A Stylistic Overview | |
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| Style and Form in the Mid-18th Century | |
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| Instrumental Music in the Classical Era | |
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| The Language of Instrumental Music | |
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| Sonata | |
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| String Quartet | |
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| Cyclical Coherence | |
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| The Symphony | |
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| Concerto | |
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| Vocal Music in the Classical Era | |
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| The Rise of Opera Buffa | |
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| Opera Wars | |
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| Gluck and the Reform of Opera | |
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| Mozart and the Synthesis of Operatic Styles | |
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| Sacred Music | |
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| Song | |
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| The 19th Century | |
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| Prelude to Part V | |
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| Progres | |