Middle Ages. Women as singers in Christian antiquity ; Music in an early community of women ; Life at a twelfth-century Benedictine convent ; Hildegard of Bingen : abbess and composer ; Three women troubadours ; Women among the minstrels and as amateur musicians

Renaissance. The Renaissance lady ; Vocal and instrumental music performance at an Italian convent ; The rise of women as virtuoso singers

Baroque. Francesca Caccini : singer-composer ; Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre : composer and harpsichordist ; The Venetian conservatories

Classic period. Music as an accomplishment ; Marianne von Martinez : composer and singer ; Maria Theresia von Paradis : pianist on tour ; Corona Schröter and Julie Candeille : two composers speak out

1820-1920. Clara Schumann : pianist ; Amy Fay : pianist ; Lillian Nordica : operatic soprano ; Margaret Blake-Alverson : contralto ; Sissieretta Jones : soprano ; Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel ; Clara Schumann ; Ethel Smyth ; Luise Adolpha Le Beau ; Cosima Wagner ; The female amateur : from accomplishment to achievement ; Women as teachers ; Women as patrons in the club movement ; The Vienna Damen Orchester in New York, 1871 ; Caroline B. Nichols and the Boston Fadette Lady Orchestra ; Camilla Urso on professional equity for women violinists ; Should women perform in the same orchestra with men? ; A classic formulation of women's inferiority / George Upton ; Regarding unequal education in the past / Helen J. Clarke

Regarding the "great composer" aspect of the question / Mr. Meadows-White ; Women have too well aided men / Amy Fay ; Fighting generalizations about women / Mabel Daniels ; A corollary to the question : sexual aesthetics in music criticism

1920-1981. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge : patron of chamber music ; Nadia Boulanger : teacher of composers ; Women's symphony orchestras ; American women demand "mixed" orchestras ; Three musicians recall their careers : Antonia Brico, Frederique Petrides, and Jeannette Scheerer ; Marian Anderson : contralto ; "Female pipings in Eden" / Ethel Smyth ; "Why no great women composers?" / Carl E. Seashore ; Ruth Crawford-Seeger ; Elisabeth Lutyens ; Nancy Van de Vate.