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| Introduction | |
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| Types of Scores | |
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| The Look of a Score | |
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| Parts, lines, brackets | |
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| How to determine a score's makeup or instrumentation | |
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| Organization of a score page | |
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| Notation of individual instruments | |
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| Transposing instruments | |
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| Title pages: "Opus" and other work-numbering systems | |
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| Partial scores | |
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| Scores and Their History | |
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| The first scores | |
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| Renaissance and baroque scores | |
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| Scores of the classic and romantic periods | |
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| Reading a Score--Hearing a Score | |
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| Methods for following a score | |
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| Following a single part | |
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| Chamber music scores | |
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| Counting beats and measures | |
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| Synchronizing image and sound | |
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| Musical reading of a score | |
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| Examples for Practicing Score Reading | |
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| "Erbarme dich, mein Gott" (Have mercy, O Lord), Aria No. 47 from The Passion According to St. Matthew, BWV 244, Part II | |
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| Romanze in F Major, Op. 50, No. 2, for violin and orchestra | |
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| Waltz in D-flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1, for piano, the "Minute Waltz" | |
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| Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Serenade in G Major, K. 525, fourth movement | |
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| Quintet in A Major for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass, "The Trout," fourth movement | |
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| Symphony in C Major, K. 551, "Jupiter," excerpt from the first movement | |
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| Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, excerpt from the first movement | |
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| Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98, excerpt from the first movement | |
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| Prelude to Tristan and Isolde | |
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| The Firebird, ballet suite, 1945, excerpt | |
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| A few scores recommended for further practice | |
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| Orchestras and Conductors | |
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| Numbers and types of instruments | |
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| Seating plans | |
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| Spatial effects | |
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| The conductor | |
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| Conducting technique | |
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| Instrumentation and Score Reading: Suggestions for Further Reading | |