Pre-Christian and Mediaeval periods--The reformation: Music in church, school and court--Swedish music during the age of greatness--Two Scandinavian masters of the Baroque: Didrik Buxtehude and Johan Helmich Roman--The foundations of Scandinavian opera--National Romanticism and the study of folk music--Lyric song and pianoforte miniature--Orchestral and chamber music in the nineteenth century--Ballet, Opera and other music for the stage--Jean Sibelius and Carl Nielsen--Finnish music after Sibelius--Wilhelm Stenhammar and modern Swedish music

1. Music -- Scandinavia -- History and criticism