I. : 1. Stringed keyboard instruments: their origins and development : Echiquier ; Clavichord ; Harpsichord ; Pianoforte -- 2. Early keyboard music : The beginnings ; Keyboard composers of the Renaissance ; Postlude -- II. : 3. Harpsichord music: its forms and characteristics : Keyboard forms ; Epilogue -- 4. English keyboard music through Purcell : Virginal music collections ; Virginal music composers ; The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book ; The English Harpsichord School -- 5. Italian cembalo music : Giolamo Frescobaldi ; Other early composers ; Domenico Scarlatti ; Later cembalo composers -- 6. The French clavecinists : Influence of the French lutenists ; Jacques Champion de Chambonnières ; A clavecin tradition develops ; Francois Couperin ; Jean-Philipe Rameau ; Other clavecinists -- 7. Keyboard music in Belgium and Holland : Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ; Belgium ; Holland -- 8. Keyboard music in Spain and Portugal in the eighteenth century : Spain ; Portugal -- 9. Keyboard music in Germany and Austria in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : Johann Jacob Froberger ; Court composers of Austria ; The French influence ; Dietrich Buxtehude ; Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer ; Georg Bohm ; Johann Kuhnau ; Other harpsichord composers -- 10. Bach and Handel : Johann Sebastian Bach ; George Frederick Handel -- III. : 11. Eighteenth-century classicism -- 12. The sons and Bach and their contemporaries : Wilhelm Friedemann Bach ; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ; Johann Christian Bach ; Contemporaries of Bach's sons -- 13. Haydn and Mozart : Franz Joseph Haydn ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- 14. Beethoven : First period ; Second period ; Third period -- IV. : 15. Romanticism -- 16. The Romantic composers: Weber, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Schumann : Carl Maria von Weber ; Franz Schubert ; Felix Mendelssohn ; Robert Schumann ; Epilogue -- 17. The Romantic composers: Chopin : Preludes ; Études ; Nocturnes ; Impromptus ; Polonaises ; Mazurkas ; Waltzes ; Sonatas ; Ballades ; Scherzos -- 18. The Romantic composers: Liszt : Original works ; Transcriptions and operatic fantasias -- 19. Technique and technicians : Muzio Clementi ; Daniel Steibelt ; Johann Hummel ; Johann Cramer ; Friedrich Kalkbrenner ; Karl Czerny ; Ignaz Moscheles ; Sigismund Thalberg ; Henri Herz : Alkan ; Other pianist-composters -- 20. Brahms and the late nineteenth century in Germany : Johannes Brahms ; Max Reger ; Minor composers -- 21. The Slavic countries in the Romantic era : Russia ; Bohemia -- 22. The North countries : Norway ; Sweden ; Denmark ; Finland -- 23. French piano music in the nineteenth century : Early French piano music ; Camille Saint-Saens ; Emmanuel Chabrier ; César Franck ; Vincent d'Indy ; Déodat de Sévérac ; Gabriel Fauré ; Paul Dukas ; Albert Roussel -- 24. Early American piano music : Early keyboard composers ; Louis Gottschalk ; Edward MacDowell -- 25. The golden age of Spanish piano music : Isaac Albéniz ; Enrique Granados ; Manuel de Falla ; Joaquín Turina -- V. : 26. Impressionism -- 27. Debussy and Ravel : Claude Debussy ; Maurice Ravel -- 28. The twentieth century -- 29. Twentieth-century keyboard music: Germany, Austria, Italy, and the Slavic countries : Germany and Austria ; Italy ; Russia ; Czechoslovakia and Poland -- 30. Twentieth-century keyboard music: France, Hungary, Holland, Spain, and England : France ; Hungary ; Holland : Spain ; England ; Epilogue -- 31. Contemporary piano music in the Americas: Canada : Claude Champagne ; Jean Coulthard ; Barbara Pentland ; Jean Papineau-Couture ; Other Canadian composers -- 32. Contemporary piano music in the Americas: Latin America : Argentina ; Brazil ; Chile ; Mexico ; Other Latin-American countries -- 33. Contemporary piano music in the Americas: the United States : Impressionists ; nationalists ; Neo-Romantics ; Neo-Classicists ; Composers using twelve-tone techniques ; Coda.