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| Preface to the abridged edition | |
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| Preface to the first edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Reflexions critiques sur la poesie et sur la peinture (1719) Du Bos | |
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| An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725) Hutcheson | |
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| Three Treatises (1744) Harris | |
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| Les beaux-arts reduits a un meme principe (1746) Batteux | |
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| 'Discours preliminaire' from the Encyclopedie (1751) d'Alembert | |
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| An Essay on Musical Expression (1753) Avison | |
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| 'Genie', from the Encyclopidie (1757) de Jaucourt | |
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| 'Le Gout, from the Encyclopedie (1757) Voltaire | |
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| A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757) Burke | |
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| Essai sur l'origine des langues (1764) Rousseau | |
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| Sensibilite', `Le Sublime', from the Encyclopedie (1765) de Jaucourt | |
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| 'Le Genie', `L'Imitation' (with Framery's commentary), `Le Natural', `Le Gout', `L'Unite de melodie', from the Dictionnaire de musique (1767) Rousseau | |
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| 'Aesthetik', `Leidenschaften', `Ausdruck in der Musik', `Genie', Begeisterung', `Musik', `Naturlich', `Erhaben', from the Allgemeine Theorie der schonen Kunste (1771) Sulzer | |
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| `Lettre ... sur la musique, from (1773) Gluck | |
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| `Preliminary Discourse' from A General History of the Science and Practice of Music (1776) Hawkins | |
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| Entretiens sur l'etat de la musique grecque au quatrieme siecle (1777) Barthelemy | |
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| La poetique de la musique (1785) La Cepede | |
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| `Versuch einer Vereinigung alley schonen Kunste', from Berlinische Monatsschrift (1785) Moritz | |
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| Discourse xiii (1786) Reynolds | |
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| `Essay on Musical Criticism', from A General History of Music (vol. 3) (1789) Burney | |
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| Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste (1790) Alison | |
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| Kritik der Urteilskraft (1790) Kant | |
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| System der Aesthetik (1790) Heydenreich | |
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| `Ueber Charakterdarstellung in der Musik', from Die Horen (1795) Korner | |
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| Essay sur la propagation de la musique en France (1796) Leclerc | |
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| From the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (1813), Kalligone (1800) Herder | |
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| Vorlesungen fiber schone Literatur und Kunst (1801), Vorlesungen fiber dramatische Kunst und Literatur (1808) Schlegel, A. W. | |
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| `The intangibility of music' | |
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| 'Musical beauty - form and content' | |
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| 'The beautiful and the sublime in music' | |
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| 'Humour in music', from the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (1805-7) and the Berlinische musikalische Zeitung (1805) Michaelis | |
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| `Le Beau', `Classique', `Romanesque', `Le Sublime' from the Dictionnaire des beaux-arts (1806) Millin | |
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| `Of classic and romantic poetry' de Stael | |
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| Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (1819) Schopenhauer | |
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| `Music and the other arts' | |
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| 'Musical interpretation of content' | |
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| 'The effect of music' | |
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| 'Form, technique and content in music' | |
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| 'The relationship between the musical means of expression and their content' | |
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| `Lyric and dramatic music' | |
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| 'Independent music', from Aesthetik Hegel | |
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| `Du romantique', from Le Globe (1825) Anon | |
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| Ueber Reinheit der Tonkunst (1825) Thibaut;'Bello', `Espressione', `Imitazione', `Romantico', `Sublime', `Unita', `Estetica' Lichtenthal | |
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| 'Reponse a fine question qui noun a ete faite par nos abonnes' | |
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| 'Revue des journaux de musique publiees daps les divers pays de I'Europe', from the Revue musicale (1827) Fetis | |
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| L'Histoire du romantisme (1829) Toreinx | |
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| 'Le romantisme en musique', from the Revue musicale (1830) E.F. | |
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| Substance of Several Courses of Lectures (1831) Crotch | |
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| 'Sur les dictionnaires de musique' | |
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| 'Polemique. Du mouvement et de la resistance en musique', from the Revue musicale (1831) Fetis | |
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| Kurze Encyclopddie der Philosophic (1831) Herbart | |
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| 'The importance of the imagination' | |
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| 'Emotion' | |
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| `The nature of the composer's inspiration' | |
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| 'That music is more precise than words' | |
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| Musical progress' (1831-46) Mendelsohn | |
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| 'Schonheit und Schon', `Begeisterung', `Romantik und Romantisch', `Erhaben' from the Universal Lexicon der Tonkunst (1834-8) Schilling | |
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| Filosofia della Musica (1836) Mazzini | |
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| 'Ideen fiber Baukunst und Musik', from Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik (1838) Becker | |
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| L'etat actuel de l'esthetique musicale', from the Revue musicale (1838) Fetis | |
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| Esquisse d'une philosophie (1840) | |