Chapter 1: Baroque Music in Early Modern Europe
Part I: Musical Expression and Innovation
Chapter 2: Ancients and Moderns
Chapter 3: Theatrical Baroque
Chapter 4: The Art and Craft of Instrumental Music in the Early Seventeenth Century
Chapter 5: Music in Civic and Religious Ritual
Part II: Musical Institutions
Chapter 6: Public Opera in Venice and Beyond
Chapter 7: Pleasure and Power at the Court of Louis XIV
Chapter 8: Music in Seventeenth-Century England
Chapter 9: Music Education
Chapter 10: Academies, Salons, and Music Societies
Part III: Musical Synthesis in the Capitals of Europe
Chapter 11: Rome in the Age of the Arcadian Academy
Chapter 12: Parisians and Their Music in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 13: Music in City, Court, and Church in the Holy Roman Empire
Chapter 14: The London of Handel and Hogarth
Chapter 15: Postlude and Prelude: Bach and the Baroque