1. Early encounters between indigenous peoples and European explorers / (Castañeda, Drake, de Meras, Smith, Wood)
2. From the Preface to the first edition of the Bay psalm book
3. Four translations of Psalm 100 / (Tehilim, Bay Psalm Book, 1640 and 1698, Watts)
4. From the diaries of Samuel Sewall
5. The ministers rally for musical literacy / (Mather, Walter, Symmes)
6. Benjamin Franklin advises his brother on how to write a ballad and how not to write like Handel
7. Social music for the elite in colonial Williamsburg
8. Advertisements and notices from colonial newspapers.
1770-1830. 9. "Christopher Crotchet, singing master from Quavertown"
10. Singing the revolution / (Adams, Dickinson, Greeley)
11. Elisha Bostwick hears a Scots prisoner sing "Gypsie Laddie"
12. A sidebar into ballad scholarship : the wanderings of "The gypsy laddie" / (Child, Sharp, Coffin, Bronson)
13. William Billings and the new sacred music / (Billings, Gould)
14. Daniel Read on pirating and "scientific music"
15. Turn-of-the-century theater songs from Reinagle, Rowson, and Carr : "America, commerce, and freedom" and "The little sailor boy"
16. Padre Narciso Durán describes musical training at the Mission San Jose
17. Moravian musical life at Bethlehem / (Henry, Till, Bowne)
18. Reverend Burkitt brings camp meeting hymns from Kentucky to North Carolina in 1803
19. John Fanning Watson and errors in Methodist worship
19. Reverend James B. Finley and Mononcue sing "Come thou fount of every blessing."
21. Thomas D. Rice acts out Jim Crow and Cuff
22. William M. Whitlock, banjo player for the Virginia Minstrels
23. Edwin P. Christy, Stephen Foster, and "Ethiopian minstrelsy"
24. Stephen Foster's legacy / (Foster, Gordon, Robb, Simpson, Willis, Galli-Curci, Ellington, Charles)
25. The Fasola folk, The southern harmony, and The sacred harp / (Walker, White, King)
26. A sidebar into the discovery of shape-note music by a national audience / (Jackson, The sacred harp, 1991)
27. The Boston public schools set a national precedent in music education
28. Lorenzo Da Ponte recruits an Italian opera company for New York
29. Music education for American girls
30. Early expressions of cultural nationalism / (Hopkins, Fry, Putnam's Monthly)
31. John S. Dwight remembers how he and his circle "were but babes in music"
32. George Templeton Strong hears the American premiere of Beethoven's Fifth
33. German Americans adapting and contributing to musical life
34. Emil Klauprecht's German-American novel, Cincinnati, oder, Die Geheimnisse des Westens
35. P.T. Barnum and the Jenny Lind fever
36. Miska Hauser, Hungarian violinist, pans for musical gold
37. From the journals of Louis Moreau Gottschalk
38. The 'four-part blend' of the Hutchinson Family
39. Walt Whitman's conversion to opera
40. Clara Kellogg and the memoirs of an American prima donna
41. Frederick Douglass from My bondage and my freedom
42. Harriet Beecher Stowe and two scenes from Uncle Tom's cabin
43. From Slave songs of the United States (1867)
44. A sidebar into memory : slave narratives from the Federal Writers' Project in the new deal
45. George F. Root recalls how he wrote a classic union song
46. A confederate girl's diary during the Civil War
47. Soldier-musicians from the North and the South recall duties on the front
48. Ella Sheppard Moore, a Fisk Jubilee Singer
- 49. Patrick S. Gilmore and the golden age of bands / (Newspaper review, Herbert)
50. Theodore Thomas and his musical manifest destiny / (Rose Fay Thomas, Theodore Thomas).
51. John Philip Sousa : excerpts from his Autobiography
52. Why is a good march like a marble statue? / (Pryor, Fennell)
3. Willa Cather mourns the passing of the small-town opera house
54. Henry Lee Higginson and the founding of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
55. American classical music goes to the Paris World's Fair of 1889
56. George Chadwick's ideals for composing classical concert music
57. Late 19th-century cultural nationalism : the paradigm of Dvořák / (Creelman, Paine, Burleigh)
58. Henry Krehbiel explains a critic's craft and a listener's duty
59. Amy Fay tackles the "woman question"
60. Amy Beach, composer, on "Why I chose my profession"
61. Edward MacDowell, poet-musician, remembered / (Currier, Gilman)
62. Paul Rosenfeld's manifesto for American composers
63. From the writings of Charles Ives
64. Frederic Louis Ritter looks for the "people's song"
65. Frances Densmore and the documentation of American Indian songs and poetry
66. A sidebar into national cultural policy : the Federal Cylinder Project
67. Charles K. Harris on writing hits for Tin Pan Alley
68. Scott Joplin, ragtime visionary / (Scott Joplin, Lottie Joplin)
69. A sidebar into the ragtime revival of the 1970s : William Bolcom reviews The collected works of Scott Joplin
70. James Reese Europe on the origin of "modern dances"
71. Irving Berlin on "love-interest as a commodity" in popular songs
72. Caroline Caffin on the "music and near-music" of Vaudeville
73. Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton describes New Orleans and the discipline of jazz.
74. Bessie Smith, artist and blues singer / (press notice, Bailey, Schuller)
75. Thomas Andrew Dorsey "Brings the people up" and carries himself along
76. Louis Armstrong in his own words
77. Gilbert Seldes waves the flag of pop
78. Al Jolson and The jazz singer
79. Carl Stalling : master of cartoon music : an interview
80. A sidebar into postmodernism: John Zorn Turns Carl Stalling into a Prophet
81. Alec Wilder writes lovingly about Jerome Kern
82. George Gershwin explains that "Jazz is the voice of the American soul"
83. William Grant Still, pioneering African American composer / (Still, Locke, Still)
84. The inimitable Henry Cowell as described by the irrepressible Nicolas Slonimsky
85. Ruth Crawford and her "astonishing juxtapositions"
86. "River Sirens, Lion Roars, all music to Varèse" : an interview in Santa Fe
87. Leopold Stokowski and "debatable music"
88. Henry Leland Clark on the Composers Collective
89. Marc Blitzstein in and out of the treetops of The cradle will rock
90. Samuel Barber and the controversy around the premiere of Adagio for strings / (Downes, Pettis, Menotti, Harris)
91. Virgil Thomson, composer and critic
92. Arthur Berger divides Aaron Copland into two styles and Copland puts himself back together again
93. Aaron Copland on the "personality of Stravinsky"
94. The American period of Arnold Schoenberg / (Sessions, Newlin)
95. Uncle Dave Macon, banjo trickster at the Grand Ole Opry
96. The Bristol sessions and country music
97. A sidebar into the folk revival : Harry Smith's canon of old-time recordings
98. Zora Neale Hurston on "spirituals and neo-spirituals"
99. The hard times of Emma Dusenbury, source singer
100. John and Alan Lomax propose a "Canon for American folk song"
101. Woody Guthrie praises the "spunkfire" attitude of a folk song
102. Fred Astaire dances like a twentieth-century American / (Williams)
103. The innovations of Oklahoma! / (de Mille, Engel)
104. Duke Ellington on swing as a way of life
105. Malcolm X recalls the years of swing
106. The many faces of Billie Holiday / (Holiday, Wilson, Bennett)
107. Ralph Ellison and the birth of bebop at Minton's.
108. Ella Fitzgerald on stage / (Peterson)
109. Leonard Bernstein charts an epic role for musical theater
110. Stephen Sondheim on writing theater lyrics
111. Muddy Waters explains "why it doesn't pay to run from trouble"
112. Elvis Presley in the eye of musical twister / (newspaper reviews, Gould, Lewis)
113. Chuck Berry in his own words
114. The five string banjo : hints from the 1960s speed-master, Earl Scruggs
115. Pete Seeger, a TCUAPSS, Sings out!"
116. Bob Dylan turns liner notes into poetry
117. Janis Joplin grabs pieces of our hearts / (Joplin, Graham)
118. "Handcrafting the grooves" in the studio: Aretha Franklin at Muscle Shoals / (Wexler)
119. Jimi Hendrix, virtuoso of electricity / (Hendrix, Bloomfield)
120. Amiri Baraka theorizes a black nationalist aesthetic
121. Greil Marcus and the new rock criticism
122. Charles Reich on the music of "Consciousness III"
123. McCoy Tyner on "the jubilant experience of John Coltrane"s classic quartet
124. Miles Davis : excerpts from his autobiography
125. A Vietnam vet remembers rocking and rolling in the mud of war
126. George Crumb and Black angels : "A quartet in time of war"
127. Milton Babbitt on electronic music / (Babbitt, Brody and Miller)
128. Edward T. Cone satirizes music theory's new vocabulary
129. Mario Davidovsky, an introduction / (Chasalow)
130. Elliot Carter on the "different time worlds" in String quartets no. 1 and 2
131. John Cage, words and Music for changes / (Cage, Anderson)
132. Harold Schonberg on "art and bunk, matter and anti matter"
133. Pauline Oliveros, composer and teacher
134. Steve Reich on "music as a gradual process."
135. Star Wars meets Wagner / (Dyer, Tomlinson)
136. Tom Johnson demonstrates what minimalism is all about
137. Morton Feldman and his West German fan base / (Feldman, Post)
138. Philip Glass and the roots of reform opera
139 Laurie Anderson does "stand-up" performance art / (Anderson, Gordon)
140. Meredith Monk and the revelation of voice
141. Recapturing the soul of the American orchestra / (Duffy, Tower)
142. Two economists measure the impact of blind auditions
143. John Harbison on modes of composing
144. Wynton Marsalis on learning from the past for the sake of the present
145. John Adams, an American master
146. The incorporation of the American Folklife Center
147. Daniel J. Boorstin's welcoming remarks at the Conference on Ethnic Recordings in America
148. Willie Colón on "conscious salsa"
149. The accordion travels through "roots music" / (Savoy)
a very beautiful accordion flower / (Santiago Jiménez, Flaco Jiménez, Jordán)
151. Gloria Anzaldúa on Vistas y corridos : my native tongue
152. Contemporary Native American music and the Pine Ridge Reservation / (Porcupine Singers, Frazier)
153. MTV and the music video / (MoMA, Hoberman)
154. Turning points in the career of Michael Jackson / (Jackson, Jones)
155. Sally Banes explains why "breaking is hard to do"
156. Two members of public enemy discuss sampling and copyright law
157. DJ Qbert, master of turntable music
158. A press release from the Country Music Association
159. Ephemeral music : Napster's congressional testimony.