Contents:
Part I Before Bach
Part II The Composers and Their Music
 Johann Sebastian Bach
 Samuel Barber
 Bela Bartok
 Ludwig van Beethoven
 Alban Berg
 Hector Berlioz
 Georges Bizet
 Ernest Bloch
 Alexander Borodin
 Johannes Brahms
 Benjamin Britten
 Anton Bruckner
 Ernest Chausson
 Frederic Chopin
 Aaron Copland
 Claude Debussy
 Frederick Delius
 Ernst von Dohnanyi
 Gaetano Donizetti
 Paul Dukas
 Antonin Dvorak
 Sir Edward Elgar
 Georges Enesco
 Manuel de Falla
 Gabriel Faure
 Cesar Franck
 George Gershwin
 Christoph Willibald Gluck
 Charles Gounod
 Edvard Grieg
 George Frideric Handel
 Howard Hanson
 Roy Harris
 Joseph Haydn
 Paul Hindemith
 Arthur Honegger
 Vincent d’Indy
 Aram Khatchaturian
 Zoltan Kodaly
 Edouard Lalo
 Ruggiero Leoncavallo
 Franz Liszt
 Gustav Mahler
 Pietro Mascagni
 Jules Massenet
 Felix Mendelssohn
 Gian-Carlo Menotti
 Giacomo Meyerbeer

Includes bibliographical references and index