Ancient Greece -- Byzantium -- Rome -- The Patristic period -- Gregorian art and its sphere of influence -- Further diffusion of Gregorian art -- The gothic -- The Ars Nova -- The renaissance -- The baroque -- The late baroque -- Rococo, style galant, empfindsamkeit -- The classic era -- The peripheries of eighteenth-century music and its practice -- The confluence of classicism and romanticism -- Romanticism -- From romanticism to realism -- Counter currents -- The peripheries of nineteenth-century music and its practice -- The road to the present.