Part I : Chronological history of French music from the early Middle Ages to the present. From abbey to cathedral and court : music under the Merovingian, Carolingian and Capetian kings in France until Louis IX / Alice V. Clark ; Cathedral and court : music under the late Capetian and Valois kings, to Louis XI / Lawrence Earp ; The Renaissance / Fabrice Fitch ; Music under Louis XIII and XIV, 1610-1715 / Peter Bennett and Georgia Cowart ; Music from the Regency to the Revolution, 1715-1789 / Debra Nagy ; The Revolution and Romanticism to 1848 / Michael McClellan and Simon Trezise ; Renaissance and change, 1848 to the death of Debussy / Simon Trezise ; La guerre et la paix, 1914-1945 / Andy Fry ; Cultural and generational querelles in the musical domain : music from the Second World War / Jonathan Goldman
Part II. Opera. Opera and ballet to the death of Gluck / Jaqueline Waeber ; Opera and ballet after the Revolution / Steven Huebner
Part III : Other musics. Traditional music and its ethnomusicological study / Luc Charles-Dominique ; Popular music / David Loosely
Part IV. Themes and topics. Manuscript sources and calligraphy / John Haines ; Church and state in the early medieval period / Andrew Tomasello ; Music and the court of the ancien régime / Jeanice Brooks ; Musical aesthetics of the Siècle des Lumières / Georgia Cowart ; Paris and the regions from the Revolution to the First World War / Katharine Ellis.
