1 Sound: Pitch, Dynamics, and Tone Color
2 Performing Media: Voices and Instruments
3 Rhythm
4 Music Notation
5 Melody
6 Harmony
7 Key
8 Musical Texture
9 Musical Form
10 Musical Style

1 Music in the Middle Ages (450–1450)
2 Music in the Renaissance (1450–1600)

1 Baroque Music (1600–1750)
2 Music in Baroque Society
3 The Concerto Grosso and Ritornello Form
4 The Fugue
5 The Elements of Opera
6 Opera in the Baroque Era
7 Claudio Monteverdi
8 Henry Purcell
9 The Baroque Sonata
10 Antonio Vivaldi
11 Johann Sebastian Bach
12 The Baroque Suite
13 The Chorale and Church Cantata
14 The Oratorio
15 George Frideric Handel

1 The Classical Style (1750–1820)
2 Composer, Patron, and Public in the Classical Period
3 Sonata Form
4 Theme and Variations
5 Minuet and Trio
6 Rondo
7 The Classical Symphony
8 The Classical Concerto
9 Classical Chamber Music
10 Joseph Haydn
11 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
12 Ludwig van Beethoven

1 Romanticism in Music (1820–1900)
2 Romantic Composers and Their Public
3 The Art Song
4 Franz Schubert
5 Robert Schumann
6 Frédéric Chopin
7 Franz Liszt
8 Felix Mendelssohn
9 Program Music
10 Hector Berlioz
11 Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Music
12 Antonin Dvorák
13 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
14 Johannes Brahms
15 Giuseppe Verdi
16 Giacomo Puccini
17 Richard Wagner

1 Musical Styles: 1900–1945
2 Music and Musicians in Society since 1900
3 Impressionism and Symbolism
4 Claude Debussy
5 Neoclassicism
6 Igor Stravinsky
7 Expressionism
8 Arnold Schoenberg
9 Alban Berg
10 Anton Webern
11 Béla Bartók
12 Music in America
13 Amy Beach
14 Charles Ives
15 George Gershwin
16 William Grant Still
17 Aaron Copland
18 Alberto Ginastera
19 Musical Styles since 1945
20 Music since 1945: Five Representative Pieces
21 Jazz
22 Music for Stage and Screen
23 Rock

1 Music in Nonwestern Cultures
2 Music in Sub-Saharan Africa
3 Classical Music of India