Music in the middle ages : with an introduction on the music of ancient times

pt. 1. Introduction : the music of ancient times. Southwest Asia and Egypt

Greece and Rome

pt. 2. Western European monody to about 1300. The beginnings of Christian sacred chant and the growth of some of its chief branches : Syrian, Byzantine, Armenian, Coptic, and Ethiopian

The growth of some of the chief branches of Christian chant

continued : Russian, Ambrosian, Mozarabic, and Gallican

Gregorian chant : its history and notation

Gregorian chant : its modal system and forms

Secular monody : the Latin songs, the jongleurs, troubadours, and trouvères

Secular monody continued : the early Minnesinger, the Laude and Geisslerlieder, English monody, Spanish monody

pt. 3. Polyphony based on the perfect consonances and its displacement by polyphony based on the third. The earlier stages of organum

The rise of measured music and the development of its notation to Franco of Cologne (c. 1280)

The culmination of the continental organum and discant in the 12th and 13th centuries : the organa, conductus, early motet, cantilena; methods of performance; instruments ; The 14th century : French music, French and Italian notation

The 14th century : Italian, Spanish and German music ; Musica falsa; Instruments

Polyphony in the British Isles from the 12th century to the death of Dunstable