Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

v. 1. Ancient and oriental music / edited by Egon Wellesz -- v. 2. The early Middle Ages to 1300 / edited by Richard Crocker and David Hiley -- v. 3. Ars Nova and the Renaissance, 1300-1540 / edited by Dom Anselm Hughes and Gerald Abraham -- v. 4. The age of humanism, 1540 - 1630 / edited by Gerald Abraham -- v. 5. Opera and church music, 1630-1750 / edited by Anthony Lewis and Nigel Fortune -- v. 6. Concert music, 1630-1750 / edited by Gerald Abraham -- v. 7. The age of enlightenment, 1745-1790 / edited by Egon Wellesz and Frederick Sternfeld -- v. 8. The age of Beethoven, 1790-1830 / edited by Gerald Abraham -- v. 9. Romanticism, 1830-1890 / edited by Gerald Abraham -- v. 10. The modern age, 1890-1960 / edited by Martin Cooper