When exactly did the Baroque era end and the Classical era begin? When did the Classical period give birth to the Romantic era? When did Modernism begin? Michael Lankester traverses these periods in histrory using copious examples in music, painting and literature.

1. The Beginnings – Folk Music and Dance

2. Organum – Homophony and Polyphony

3. Early Baroque

4. The Flowering of the Late Baroque

5. Early Classical

6. ‘Sturm und Drang’

7. The Romantic Era – The Artist as Hero

8. The Explosion of Modernism

9. Into the Future – The Challenger Spacecraft

10. The Golden Record