Encyclopedia of the great composers and their music

V. 1. Pt. I. Before Bach

Pt. II. The composers and their music. Johann Sebastian Bach ; Samuel Barber ; Béla Bartók ; Ludwig van Beethoven ; Alban Berg ; Hector Berlioz ; Georges Bizet ; Ernest Bloch ; Alexander Borodin ; Johannes Brahms ; Benjamin Britten ; Anton Bruckner ; Ernest Chausson ; Frédéric Chopin ; Aaron Copland ; Claude Debussy ; Frederick Delius ; Ernst von Dohnányi ; Gaetano Donizetti ; Paul Dukas ; Antonín Dvořák ; Sir Edward Elgar ; Georges Enesco ; Manuel de Falla ; Gabriel Fauré ; César Franck ; George Gershwin ; Christoph Willibald Gluck ; Charles Gounod ; Edvard Grieg ; George Frideric Handel ; Howard Hanson ; Roy Harris ; Joseph Haydn ; Paul Hindemith ; Arthur Honegger ; Vincent d'Indy ; Aram Khatchaturian ; Zoltán Kodály ; Edouard Lalo ; Ruggiero Leoncavallo ; Franz Liszt ; Gustav Mahler ; Pietro Mascagni ; Jules Massenet ; Felix Mendelssohn ; Gian-Carlo Menotti ; Giacomo Meyerbeer.

V. 2. [Pt. II. cont.] Darius Milhaud ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Modest Mussorgsky ; Jacques Offenbach ; Niccolò Paganini ; Serge Prokofiev ; Giacomo Puccini ; Serge Rachmaninoff ; Maurice Ravel ; Ottorino Respighi ; Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov ; Gioacchino Rossini ; Camille Saint-Saëns ; Arnold Schoenberg ; Franz Schubert ; Robert Schumann ; Alexander Scriabin ; Dmitri Shostakovich ; Jean Sibelius ; Bedřich Smetana ; Richard Strauss ; Igor Stravinsky ; Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky ; Ralph Vaughan Williams ; Giuseppi Verdi ; Heito Villa-Lobos ; Richard Wagner ; William Walton ; Karl Maria von Weber ; Hugo Wolf

Pt. III. A brief history of music since Bach

Pt. IV. One hundred basic works for the record library (with recommended recordings)

Pt. V. The anatomy of the symphony orchestra

Pt. VI. A dictionary of musical forms

Pt. VII. A glossary of musical terms.