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| Dedication | | III |
| List of Contributors | | V |
| List of Full-page Plates | | VIII |
| Index of Illustrations | | IX-XII |
| General Index | | 961 |
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| [Orlando di Lasso] | W. J. Henderson | [3] |
| [The Netherland Masters] | W. J. Henderson | [11] |
| [Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina] | Louis C. Elson | [25] |
| [Claudio Monteverde] | W. S. B. Mathews | [33] |
| [Alessandro Scarlatti] | W. S. B. Mathews | [37] |
| [Giovanni Battista Pergolese] | H. M. Ticknor | [43] |
| [Gioacchino Rossini] | Arthur Pougin | [51] |
| [Vincenzo Bellini] | H. M. Ticknor | [67] |
| [Gaetano Donizetti] | H. M. Ticknor | [75] |
| [Gasparo Luigi Pacifico Spontini] | Adolphe Jullien | [83] |
| [Luigi Cherubini] | Philipp Spitta | [93] |
| [Arrigo Boito] | Arthur Pougin | [107] |
| [Giovanni Sgambati] | Arthur Foote | [111] |
| [Guiseppi Verdi] | Benj. E. Woolf | [117] |
| [Music in Italy] | Martin Roeder | [135] |
| [Johann Sebastian Bach] | Philipp Spitta | [163] |
| [George Frederick Handel] | Philipp Spitta | [195] |
| [Christoph Wilibald Gluck] | W. Langhans | [219] |
| Franz Joseph Haydn | Benj. E. Woolf | 245 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Philip Hale | 269 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven (Biography) | Philip Hale | 309 |
| The Deafness of Beethoven | Clarence J. Blake | 333 |
| Beethoven as Composer | John K. Paine | 337 |
| Franz Peter Schubert | John Fiske | 351 |
| Ludwig Spohr | W. J. Henderson | 375 |
| Carl Maria von Weber | H. E. Krehbiel | 389 |
| Heinrich Marschner | H. E. Krehbiel | 409 |
| Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy | John S. Dwight | 417 |
| Robert Schumann | Louis Kelterborn | 439 |
| Robert Franz | Louis Kelterborn | 463 |
| Giacomo Meyerbeer | Arthur Pougin | 473 |
| Strauss | Henry T. Finck | 487 |
| Joseph Joachim Raff | W. J. Henderson | 497 |
| Johannes Brahms | Louis Kelterborn | 503 |
| Carl Goldmark | W. J. Henderson | 515 |
| Max Bruch | Louis C. Elson | 519 |
| Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger | Louis Kelterborn | 525 |
| Richard Wagner | W. J. Henderson | 533 |
| Music in Germany | John K. Paine and Leo R. Lewis | 569 |
| Jean Baptiste Lully | Oscar Comettant | 609 |
| Jean Philippe Rameau | Oscar Comettant | 615 |
| André Ernest Modeste Grétry | Oscar Comettant | 623 |
| François Adrien Boieldieu | Louis C. Elson | 633 |
| Etienne Nicolas Méhul | Geo. P. Upton | 639 |
| Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold | Geo. P. Upton | 645 |
| Daniel François Esprit Auber | Oscar Comettant | 653 |
| Jacques François Fromental Elias Halévy | Benj. E. Woolf | 665 |
| Hector Berlioz | Adolphe Jullien | 675 |
| Ambroise Thomas | Benj. E. Woolf | 691 |
| Alexander César Léopold Bizet | Philip Hale | 697 |
| Camille Saint-Saëns | Oscar Comettant | 703 |
| Jules Emile Frédéric Massenet | Oscar Comettant | 711 |
| Charles Gounod | Arthur Pougin | 719 |
| Music in France | Arthur Pougin | 735 |
| Frederick Chopin | Edward Dannreuther | 759 |
| Anton Dvořák | Henry T. Finck | 779 |
| Michael Ivanovitch Glinka | Philip Hale | 785 |
| Anton Rubinstein | Henry T. Finck | 791 |
| Peter Ilitsch Tschaïkowsky | W. J. Henderson | 803 |
| Franz Liszt | W. Langhans | 813 |
| Eduard Hagerup Grieg | Sara C. Bull and Philip Hale | 831 |
| Niels William Gade | Louis C. Elson | 837 |
| Music in Russia, Poland, Norway, etc. | Henry T. Finck | 845 |
| William Byrd | W. S. Rockstro | 867 |
| Henry Purcell | John Towers | 871 |
| John Field | Chas. L. Capen | 877 |
| William Sterndale Bennett | W. S. Rockstro | 881 |
| Michael William Balfe | Benj. E. Woolf | 885 |
| Arthur Seymour Sullivan | Florence A. Marshall | 891 |
| Charles Hubert Hastings Parry | W. S. Rockstro | 899 |
| Alexander Campbell Mackenzie | Florence A. Marshall | 903 |
| Charles Villiers Stanford | W. S. Rockstro | 907 |
| Music in England | W. S. Rockstro | 913 |
| Music in America | Henry E. Krehbiel | 933 |