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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Music History, 1600-1750: Some Basic Ideas | |
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| Historical Background: Western Europe, 1600-1750 | |
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| Music in European History, 1600-1750 | |
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| The Place of Music and Musicians in Society | |
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| Performance Practices | |
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| A Sixteenth-Century Prologue: Motet and Madrigal | |
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| The Late Renaissance Motet: Palestrina and Lassus | |
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| The Madrigal: Gesualdo and Monteverdi | |
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| Transitions around 1600 | |
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| Some General Developments | |
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| The Basso Continuo | |
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| Instruments | |
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| Monody | |
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| Monteverdi and Early Baroque Musical Drama | |
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| Claudio Monteverdi | |
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| Monteverdi's Orfeo | |
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| The Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda | |
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| Venetian Opera | |
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| Secular Vocal Music of the Later Seventeenth Century | |
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| Barbara Strozzi | |
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| Alessandro Scarlatti and the Later Cantata | |
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| The Dissemination of Italian Baroque Style | |
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| Lully and French Musical Drama | |
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| The French Style | |
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| Lully's Armide | |
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| Seventeenth-Century Sacred Music | |
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| Sacred Music in Venice: Giovanni Gabrieli | |
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| Sacred Music in Germany: Heinrich Schutz | |
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| Seventeenth-Century Oratorio | |
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| Sacred Music in France: Michel-Richard de Lalande | |
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| Late Baroque Opera | |
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| Handel | |
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| Rameau | |
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| Late Baroque Sacred Music | |
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| J. S. Bach | |
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| Handel and the Eighteenth-Century Oratorio | |
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| Music for Solo Instruments I: Toccata and Suite | |
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| The Lute and Its Repertory | |
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| Keyboard Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | |
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| Baroque Keyboard Music in Italy | |
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| Baroque Keyboard Music in France and Germany | |
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| Music for Solo Instruments II: Fugues and Pieces | |
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| Later Baroque Keyboard Music in Germany | |
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| J. S. Bach's Music for Solo Instruments | |
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| Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music in France | |
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| Other Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Composers | |
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| Music for Instrumental Ensemble I: The Sonata | |
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| The Chief Ensemble Instruments of the Baroque | |
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| Types of Baroque Music for Instrumental Ensemble | |
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| The Baroque Sonata | |
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| Music for Instrumental Ensemble II: Sinfonia and Concerto | |
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| The Bolognese Trumpet Sinfonia | |
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| The Baroque Concerto | |
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| A Mid-Eighteenth-Century Epilogue: The Galant Style | |
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| The Galant Style | |
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| Telemann | |
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| Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |