Pt. 1 Vienna: 1885-1915 -- 1. The German romantic legacy -- 2. Schoenberg to 1909: extending traditions -- 3. Webern: opus 1 to opus 12 -- 4. Alban Berg before Wozzeck.

Pt. 2. paris: 1885-1915 -- 5. Debussy: impressionism and symbolism -- 6. Maurice Ravel to the Mallarme songs (1913) -- 7. Exoticism: importations from abroad -- 8. Symbolist reverberations abroad: (I): decadent symbolism -- 9. Symbolists reverberations abroad (II): synesthetic symbolism.

Pt. 3. Emblems of crisis: 1909-1914 -- 10. Expressionism: the path to Pierrot -- 11. Primitivism: the road to The Rite.

Pt. 4. Isms and national identities: 1910-1930 -- 12. Futurism: manifestos and machines -- 13. The new simplicities: France -- 14. The new simplicities: Germany -- 15. Toward neoclassicism -- 16. Zemlinsky's Lyric symphony: against the tide -- 17. Berg: Wozzeck and the Violin concerto -- 18. Webern's path to the new music.

Pt. 5. Emerging national aspirations: 1910-1945 -- 19. Hungary: Bela Bartok -- 20. Russians abroad and at home -- 21. The twentieth-century Spanish and English renaissance: renewals in Italy -- 22. An "American" music for America.

Pt. 6. Beyond nationalism: 1920-1950 -- 23. Rituals, liturgies, and voices of war.

Pt. 7. Postwar serialism and the rise of an international avant-garde -- 24. Europe: in search of a common practice -- 25. The United States of America -- 26. Serialism and the European old guard -- 27. The international avant-garde: choice and chance.

Pt. 8. The quest for new sounds -- 28. Electronics and explorations of duration, timbre, and space -- 29. The new virtuosity.

Pt. 9. Past imperfect -- future subjunctive -- 30. Uses of the past: a synthesis -- 31. Uses of the past: the generic revivals -- 32. Envoi.