- 1Preface
- 2I — The Origin of Music
- 3II — Origin of Song vs. Origin of Instrumental Music
- 4III — The Music of the Hebrews and the Hindus
- 5IV — The Music of the Egyptians, Assyrians, and Chinese
- 6V — The Music of the Chinese (Continued)
- 7VI — The Music of Greece
- 8VII — The Music of the Romans — The Early Church
- 9VIII — Formation of the Scale — Notation
- 10IX — The Systems of Hucbald and Guido D’Arezzo — The Beginning of C…
- 11X — Musical Instruments — Their History and Development
- 12XI — Folk Song and Its Relation to Nationalism in Music
- 13XII — The Troubadours, Minnesingers and Mastersingers
- 14XIII — Early Instrumental Forms
- 15XIV — The Merging of the Suite Into the Sonata
- 16XV — The Development of Pianoforte Music
- 17XVI — The Mystery and Miracle Play
- 18XVII — Opera
- 19XVIII — Opera (Continued)
- 20XIX — On the Lives and Art Principles of Some Seventeenth and Eight…
- 21XX — Declamation in Music
- 22XXI — Suggestion in Music
Critical and Historical Essays
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