| HISTORY 1: AN OVERVIEW |
| The Materials of Music |
| The Baroque Period |
| Vivaldi and The Four Seasons |
| Bach and The Well-Tempered Clavier |
| Handel and Messiah |
| The Classical Period |
| Haydn and The String Quartet |
| Mozart and Eine Kleine Nachtmusik |
| Beethoven and Symphony No. 5 |
| The Romantic Period |
| Schubert and The German Art Song |
| Chopin and Romantic Piano Music |
| Berlioz and Symphonie Fantastique |
| Bizet and Carmen |
| Puccini and Madama Butterfly |
| The 20th Century |
| Debussy and Impressionism |
| Stravinsky and His Ballets |
| Leonard Bernstein and West Side Story |
| Alexina Louie and The Canadian Contemporary Music Scene |
| HISTORY 3: 19TH CENTURY TO PRESENT |
| 19th-century Romanticism |
| Felix Mendelssohn |
| Robert Schumann |
| Franz Liszt |
| Johannes Brahms |
| Giuseppe Verdi |
| Richard Wagner |
| Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky |
| Gustav Mahler |
| Bedrich Smetana |
| Four Late Romantic Composers |
| 20th-century Musical Style |
| European Composers in the 20th Century |
| French Music: Ravel and Messiaen |
| The Second Viennese School: Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern |
| Bela Bartok and Folk Elements in Art Music |
| Russian Composers: Prokofiev and Shostakovich |
| Eastern European Composers: Ligeti, Lutoslawski, and Gorecki |
| Kurt Weill and The German Cabaret Tradition |
| American Music in the 20th Century |
| American Jazz: The Music of Joplin, Ellington, and Gershwin |
| Copland and The Emerging American Nationalism |
| The American Avant-Garde: Cage and Crumb |
| Electronic Music |
| Minimalism: Reich and Glass |
| Canadian Music in the 20th Century |
| Representative Canadian Composers and Works |
| Canadian Performing Artists and Ensembles |
