1) Revolution, War and Music, 1789-1815, Ludwig van Beethoven

2) The Romantic Generation: Song and Piano Music, The Concept of Romanticism, Improvements in Musical Instruments

3) Music for Piano, The Lied

4) Romanticism in Classic Forms: Orchestral, Chamber, and Choral Music

5) Romantic Opera and Musical Theater to Midcentury (Italian Opera, French Opera, German Opera)

6) Opera and Musical Theater in the Later Nineteenth Century (Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Later Italian Composers, Opera in Other Countries)

7) late Romanticism in Germany and Austria, Competing Philosophies, Johannes Brahms, The Influence of Wagnerian Ideas

8) Diverging Traditions in the Later Nineteenth Century (France, Eastern and Northern Europe)