The Fourth Edition expands coverage of instrumental music throughout the book, reexamines the end of the Baroque period, includes more large-scale chamber and orchestral repertoire, and moves nineteenth century opera between the early and late romantics to streamline chronology. Twentieth century chapters are now divided to provide a broader cross-section of genres and styles, introduce new repertoire, and integrate American music more chronologically
Part One: The Ancient and Medieval Worlds
Chapter 1: Music in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome
Chapter 2: Chant and Secular Song in the Middle Ages
Chapter 3: Polyphony through the Thirteenth Century
Chapter 4: French and Italian Music in the Fourteenth Century
Part Two: The Age of the Renaissance
Chapter 5: England, France, and Burgundy in the Fifteenth Century: The Beginnings of an International Style
Chapter 6: Music of Franco-Flemish Composers, 1450–1520
Chapter 7: Secular Song, National Styles, and Instrumental Music in the Sixteenth Century
Chapter 8: Sacred Music in the Era of the Reformation
Part Three: The Long Seventeenth Century
Chapter 9: Vocal Music of the Early Baroque and the Invention of Opera
Chapter 10: Vocal Music for Chamber and Church in the Early Baroque
Chapter 11: Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 12: Opera and Vocal Music in the Late Seventeenth Century
Chapter 13: Baroque Music in the Early Eighteenth Century
Part Four: The Eighteenth Century
Chapter 14: The Early Classic Period: Opera and Vocal Music
Chapter 15: The Early Classic Period: Instrumental Music
Chapter 16: The Late Eighteenth Century: Haydn and Mozart
Chapter 17: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Part Five: The Nineteenth Century: The Age of Romanticism
Chapter 18: The Early Romantics
Chapter 19: Opera and Music Drama in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 20: The Later Romantics
Chapter 21: Music in the Later Nineteenth Century: Europe, Nationalism, and the Classical Tradition in America
Part Six: The Twentieth Century and Today
Chapter 22: The European Mainstream in the Early Twentieth Century
Chapter 23: Music, Politics, and the People in the European Twentieth Century
Chapter 24: Vernacular Music and the Classical Tradition in America
Chapter 25: The Changing World of Music since 1945
