I. 1900-1914 : 1. Nineteenth century background ; The position of Beethoven ; Importance of Wagnerian music drama ; Other trends ; Style characteristics ; Romantic composer in society ; The relation of the nineteenth century to the twentieth -- 2. Paris ; Fin de Siècle -- symbolism and impressionism ; Debussy: musical background ; His compositions ; Style characteristics -- 3. Paris: other composers ; Ravel: his compositions ; Style characteristics ; Diaghilev and the young Stravinsky -- 4. Germany and Austria ; Expressionism ; Vienna and expressionism ; Schoenberg: his prewar compositions ; Other composers ; Style characteristics -- 5. Music in America ; Ives: his compositions ; Style characteristics ; Ragtime and jazz ; Jazz elements in "serious" music -- 6. Experiments in music ; Noise music ; Microtonal music ; Later developments.
II. 1914-1945 : 7. Paris after world war I ; Cocteau ; Satie ; Les six: some typical compositions -- 8. Les trois ; Milhaud: his compositions; Style characteristics ; Honegger: his compositions ; Style characteristics ; Poulenc: his compositions -- 9. Stravinsky ; His position ; The problem of style changes ; Relation to Picasso ; His compositions ; Style characteristics -- 10. Schoenberg ; Twelve-tone music ; How the row is used ; Schoenberg's compositions ; Style characteristics -- 11. Berg and Webern ; Berg: his compositions ; Style characteristics ; Webern: his compositions -- 12. Bartok ; His compositions ; Piano music ; Style characteristics -- 13. Hindemith ; His compositions ; Style characteristics -- 14. Soviet Russia ; Prokofiev: his compositions ; Style characteristics ; Shostakovich: his compositions ; Style characteristics -- 15. England ; Vaughan Williams: his compositions ; Britten: his compositions -- 16. Music in America ; Copland: his compositions ; Harris: his compositions ; Piston: his compositions; Sessions: his compositions ; Hanson: his compositions ; Thomson: his compositions -- 17. Edgard Varese.
III. 1945-1970 : 18. Settlers and explorers ; Disappearance of national schools ; Influence of phonograph records ; Acquaintance with twentieth-century music ; The "schools" of music, 1945-1970 ; Conservative composers ; Serial composers ; Toward tonal control ; Aleatoric music ; Electronic music -- 19. Some composers of the fifties and sixties ; John Cage ; Karlheinz Stockhausen ; Pierre Boulez ; Luciano Berio ; Yannis Xenakis ; Witold Lutoslawski and Krzysztof Penderecki ; Elliott Carter and Milton Babbitt ; Alberto Ginastera ; Hans Werner Henze ; Where to now?
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