Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword to the 1996 Edition -- Introduction -- 1 The Perfect Cadence and the Concert Hall -- 2 Music Outside Europe -- 3 The Commanding of Nature -- 4 The Scientific World View -- 5 The Vision of a Potential Society -- 6 A Different Drummer -- 7 Plus Ça Change . . . -- 8 Children as Consumers -- 9 Children as Artists -- Index.