Trajectories of twentieth-century music / Nicholas Cook, Anthony Pople
Peripheries and interfaces: the Western impact on other music / Jonathan Stock
Music of a century: museum culture and the politics of subsidy / Leon Botstein
Innovation and the avant-garde, 1900-20 / Christopher Butler
Music, text and stage: the tradition of bourgeois tonality to the Second World War / Stephen Banfield
Classic jazz to 1945 / James Lincoln Collier
Flirting with the vernacular: America in Europe, 1900-45 / Susan C. Cook
Between the wars: traditions, modernisms, and the 'little people from the suburbs' / Peter Franklin
Brave new worlds: experimentalism between the wars / David Nicholls
Proclaiming a mainstream: Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern / Joseph Auner
Rewriting the past: classicisms of the inter-war period / Hermann Danuser
Music of seriousness and commitment: the 1930s and beyond / Michael Walter
Other mainstreams: light music and easy listening, 1920-70 / Derek B. Scott
New beginnings: the international avant-garde, 1945-62 / David Osmond-Smith
Individualism and accessibility: the moderate mainstream, 1945-75 / Arnold Whitall
After swing: modern jazz and its impact / Mervyn Cooke
Music of the youth revolution: rock through the 1960s / Robynn Stilwell
Expanding horizons: the international avant-garde, 1962-75 / Richard Toop
To the millennium: music as twentieth-century commodity / Andrew Blake
Ageing of the new: the museum of musical modernism / Alastair Williams
(Post-)minimalisms 1970-2000: the search for a new mainstream / Robert Fink
History and class consciousness: pop music towards 2000 / Dai Griffiths
'Art' music in a cross-cultural context: the case of Africa / Martin Scherzinger
Appendix 1: Personalia / Peter Elsdon, Björn Heile
Appendix 2: Chronology / Peter Elsdon, Peter Jones.
