Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie Biblioteek

I. The beginnings : Music of the Greek era ; The early Christian era ; Organum (Rex coeli domine) ; Rhythmic modes ; Solmization (Ut quetant laxis) ; Notation -- II. Music of the Middle Ages : The troubadors (A l'entrade del tems clar) ; The minnesinger (Mayenzeit one neidt) ; The instruments ; Mensural notation ; Secular polyphony (Summer is a-coming in)

III. Music of the Renaissance : Music printing ; Josquin des Prez (Missa Pangue Lingua) ; The Protestant chorale (Ein' feste burg ist unser gott) ; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (Pope Marcellus Mass) ; Tomas Luis de Victoria (Ave Maria) ; Instrumental music ; The madrigal ; Orlando di Lasso (O lady fair) ; Hans Leo Hassler (Dancing and springing) ; Claude le Jeune (The return of Maytime) ; Thomas Morley (Now is the month of Maying)

IV. The Baroque era : Giovanni Gabrieli (In ecclesiis) ; Claudio Monteverdi (Arianna) ; Heinrich Schutz (Passion according to St. Matthew) ; Arcangelo Corelli (Concerto grosso, opus 6, no. 8) ; Alessandro Scarlatti (Exultate deo) ; Francois Couperin "le grand" (Les barricades mysterieuses) ; Antonio Vivaldi (Concerto in D minor) ; George Frideric Handel (Messiah) ; Johann Sebastian Bach (Fugue in G minor; suite no. 3; Brandenburg concerto no. 2; Jesu, joy of man's desiring) -- V. Music of the Classical era : Franz Joseph Haydn (Symphony no. 88) ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Symphony no. 40)

VI. Music of the Romantic era : Carl Maria von Weber (Der freischutz) ; Ludwig van Beethoven (Symphony no. 3) ; Franz Schubert (Symphony no. 8; Der Erlkonig; Standchen) ; Hector Berlioz (Symphonie fantastique) ; Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Concerto for violin and orchestra) ; Robert Schumann (Symphony no. 3; Die beiden grenadiere; Dichterliebe) ; Frederic Chopin (Ballade opus 47, no. 3; Etude, opus 10, no. 12; Fantasie-impromptu; Mazurka, opus 7, no. 3; Nocturne, opus 15, no. 2; Polonaise, opus 53; Prelude, opus 28, no. 15; Waltz, opus 18) ; Franz Liszt (Les Preludes) ; Giuseppe Verdi (Aida) ; Richard Wagner (Der ring des Nibelungen) ; Johannes Brahms (Symphony no. 2; Minnelied) ; Cesar Franck (Symphony in D minor) ; Georges Bizet (Carmen) ; Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (Symphony no. 4) ; Giacomo Puccini (La Boheme) ; Richard Strauss (Till Eulenspiegel's merry pranks) ; Jean Sibelius (Symphony no. 2) ; Sergei Rachmaninoff (Concerto no. 2 for piano and orchestra)

VII. Nationalism : Modest Mussorgsky (Boris Godunov) ; Alexander Borodin (Quartet no. 2) ; Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov (Scheherazade) ; Bedrich Smetana (The Moldau) ; Zoltan Kodaly (Hary Janos suite) ; Antonin Dvorak (Slavonic dances) ; Edvard Grieg (Concerto in A minor for piano and orchestra) -- VIII. Impressionism : Claude Debussy (Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune; La mer) ; Maurice Ravel (Daphnis et Chloe; Bolero) ; Manuel de Falla (The three-cornered hat) ; Ottorino Respighi (The fountains of Rome)

IX. New music : Ralph Vaughan Williams (Symphony no. 8) ; Arnold Schoenberg (Pierrot Lunaire) ; Bela Bartok (Concerto for orchestra) ; Igor Stravinsky (Petrouchka) ; Serge Prokofiev (Lt. Kije suite) ; Darius Milhaud (Suite Francaise) ; Paul Hindemith (Mathis der Maler) ; William Walton (Belshazzar's feast) ; Benjamin Britten (A ceremony of carols; The young person's guide to the orchestra) -- X. Music of the United States : Charles Ives (Sonata no. 4 for violin) ; Charles T. Griffes (The white peacock) ; Walter Piston (The incredible flutist) ; Howard Hanson (Symphony no. 2) ; Virgil Thomson (Acadian songs and dances) ; Roy Harris (Symphony no. 3) ; Randall Thompson (Alleluia) ; Aaron Copland (Appalachian spring) ; Paul Creston (Symphony no. 3) ; Samuel Barber (Symphony no. 1) ; William Schuman (New England triptych) ; Gian-Carlo Menotti (Amahl and the night visitors).