Introduction: Understanding the symphony / Julian Horton --
Part I: Historical overview of the genre. Viennese symphony, 1750 to 1827 / John Irving ; Other classical repertories / Mary Sue Morrow ; Symphony after Beethoven after Dahlhaus / David Brodbeck ; Symphony since Mahler : national and international trends / David Fanning --
Part II: Studies in symphonic analysis. Six great early symphonists / Michael Spitzer ; Harmonies and effects : Haydn and Mozart in parallel / Simon P. Keefe ; Beethoven : structural principles and narrative strategies / Mark Anson-Cartwright ; Cyclical thematic processes in the nineteenth-century symphony / Julian Horton ; Tonal strategies in the nineteenth-century symphony / Julian Horton ; 'Two-dimensional' symphonic forms : Schoenberg's Chamber symphony, before, and after / Steven Vande Moortele ; Symphony/antiphony : formal strategies in the twentieth-century symphony / Daniel M. Grimley --
Part III: Performance, reception and genre. Symphony and the classical orchestra / Richard Will ; Beethoven's shadow : the nineteenth century / Mark Evan Bonds ; Symphony as programme music / John Williamson ; 'Symphonies of the free spirit' : the Austro-German symphony in early Soviet Russia / Pauline Fairclough ; Symphony in Britain : guardianship and renewal / Alain Frogley ; Symphony, the modern orchestra and the performing canon / Alan Street.
