Romanticism and realism in music -- Franz Schubert -- Robert Schumann -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Berlioz and the beginnings of realism -- Franz Liszt -- Frédéric Chopin -- Edvard Grieg -- Antonin Dvor̂ák -- Camille Saint-Saëns -- César Franck -- Peter Ilyitsch Tschaïkowsky -- Johannes Brahms -- Richard Strauss -- Claude Debussy.
"This book is intended as a sequel to 'The appreciation of music,' written some years ago by the present writer in collaboration with Mr. Thomas Whitney Surette."- Pref. note.