Stringed keyboard instruments : their origins and development -- Early keyboard music -- Harpsichord music : its forms and characteristics -- English keyboard music through Purcell -- Italian cembalo music -- The French clavecinists -- Keyboard music in Belgium and Holland -- Keyboard music in Spain and Portugal in the eighteenth century -- Keyboard music in Germany and Austria in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Bach and Handel -- Eighteenth-century classicism -- The sons of Bach and their contemporaries -- Haydn and Mozart -- Beethoven -- Romanticism -- The Romantic composers : Weber, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Schumann -- The Romantic composers : Chopin -- The Romantic composers : Liszt -- Technique and technicians -- Brahms and the late nineteenth century in Germany -- The Slavic countries in the Romantic era -- The north countries -- French piano music in the nineteenth century -- Early American piano music -- The Golden age of Spanish piano music -- Impressionism -- Debussy and Ravel -- The twentieth century -- Twentieth-century keyboard music : Germany, Austria, Italy, and the Slavic countries -- Twentieth-century keyboard music : France, Hungary, Holland, Spain, and England -- Contemporary piano music in the Americas : Canada -- Contemporary piano music in the Americas : Latin America -- Contemporary piano music in the Americas : the United States.