Italian opera and the early symphony -- Other operatic traditions; operatic reform -- Classical opera at its height -- Instrumental music: its uses, its resources, its meaning -- Keyboard music and the sonata principle -- The principal genres of instrumental music to 1800 -- Religious music in a secular age -- Revolution and romanticism in opera -- Song -- Instrumental music in the age of Beethoven
Summary
An account of the classical era's musical history from 1750 to 1830
