Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Historical Conceptions -- India -- Vedic Chants: Humanity's First Songs? -- Hindustani Music -- Karnatic Music -- China -- A Glimpse of China's Formative Period -- Aesthetic Principles and Extramusical Associations -- Tonal System and its Theoretical Rationalization -- Greece -- Aristoxenus -- Music in Christianity -- Gregorian Chants: Liturgical Music of the Roman Catholic Church -- Musical Notions of the Protestant Reformation -- 17th- and 18th-Century Western Conceptions -- Chapter Two: Theories of Musical Meaning Since the 19th Century -- The Concept of Dynamism -- Referentialists and Nonreferentialists -- Eduard Hanslick -- Igor Stravinsky -- Intuition and Intellect -- Symbolist Contributions -- Contextualist Theories -- Information Theory -- Considerations Related to Performance Practice -- Chanson -- Music and Worldview -- Tonality and Meaning -- Ethnomusicology -- Chapter Three: Music Recording -- Types of Reproduction -- The Phonograph -- The Influence of Recording -- Composition -- Teaching -- Criticism -- Concerts -- Musicology -- The Role of the Producer -- The Development of Musical Recording -- Enrico Caruso -- Birth of a Mass Medium -- Advancements from World War II Through the 1980s -- Elvis Presley -- Can You Hear Me Now? -- Chapter Four: Musical Genres of Note -- Classical Music -- The Middle Ages -- The Renaissance -- The Baroque Era -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- Handel and the Messiah -- The Classical Age -- Haydn and the Sonata Form -- Mozart's Masterpieces -- The Genius of Beethoven -- The Romantic Period -- Schubert -- Mendelssohn -- Schumann -- The French Influence -- Berlioz -- Chopin -- Liszt -- Wagner -- Brahms -- Opera in the 19th Century -- Late Romantics -- Classical Music in the 20th Century -- The First Modernists.

Other 20th-Century Composers -- Country Music -- Swinging and Bopping into Jazz -- Beginnings -- Scott Joplin -- Early Jazz -- Bessie Smith -- Swing Era -- Benny Goodman -- Bop Era -- Modern Era -- Rhythm and Blues -- Rock Music -- Early Rock and Roll -- Motown -- Folk Rock -- Surf Rock -- The British Invasion -- The Beatles -- Psychedelic Rock -- Art Rock -- Performance Artist Laurie Anderson -- Singer-Songwriters -- Disco -- Glam Rock -- Punk Rock -- Heavy Metal -- New Wave -- Alternative and Indie Rock -- The Ongoing Evolution of Rock -- Rap Music and Hip-Hop -- Jay-Z -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.