The nature and value of folk-songs--Folk-songs of the British Isles--Folk-song in the Latin lands--German and Scandinavian folk-song--Hungarian folk-song--Folk-songs of the Slavic countries; folk-song in America. VI. THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF SONG 130 Song in early Christian times--The age of chivalry--The troubadours and trouvères--The minnesingers--The mastersingers; the Lutheran revival--Polyphonic eclipse of song. VII. THE CLASSIC SONG AND THE ARIA 151 Italy and the monodic style--Song in the seventeenth century; Germany; France--Song in England--The aria--German song in the eighteenth century; French song in the eighteenth century; forerunners of Schubert. PART III. THE ROMANTIC SONG VIII. FRANZ SCHUBERT 186 Art-song and the romantic spirit--Precursors of Schubert--Schubert’s contribution to song; Schubert’s poets--Classification of Schubert’s songs--Faults and virtues--The songs in detail; the cycles--Schubert’s contemporaries. IX. ROBERT SCHUMANN 231 Romantic music and romantic poetry--Schumann as a song-writer--The earlier songs--The ‘Woman’s Life’ cycle; the ‘Poet’s Love’ cycle; the later songs--Schumann’s contemporaries. X. THE CONTEMPORARIES OF SCHUBERT AND SCHUMANN 258 The spirit of the ‘thirties’ in France; the lyric poets of the French romantic period--Monpou and Berlioz--Song-writers of Italy; English song-writers--Robert Franz--Löwe and the art-ballad. XI. BRAHMS, WAGNER AND LISZT 276 Brahms as a song-writer--Classification of Brahms’ songs; the ‘folk-songs’; analysis of Brahms’ songs--Wagner’s songs; Liszt as a song-writer. XII. LATE ROMANTICS IN GERMANY AND ELSEWHERE 296 The dilution of the romantic spirit--Grieg and his songs--Minor romantic lyricists: Peter Cornelius, Adolph Jensen, Eduard Lassen, George Henschel, and Halfdan Kjerulf; Dvořák’s songs--French song-writers: Gounod and others; Saint-Saëns and Massenet; minor French lyricists--Edward MacDowell as song-writer; Nevin and others--Rubinstein and Tschaikowsky--English song. PART IV. MODERN SONG LITERATURE XIII. HUGO WOLF AND AFTER 330 Wolf and the poets of his time; Hugo Wolfs songs; Gustav Mahler; Richard Strauss as song-writer; Max Reger’s songs--Schönberg and the modern radicals. XIV. MODERN FRENCH LYRICISM 346