Chapter 1. A Gathering of Traditions
Chapter 2. The Piano Is Born
Chapter 3. The First Piano Superstar
Chapter 5. Performers on the Boad
Chapter 6. The Four Sounds
Chapter 7. The Combustibles
Part 1. The New Testament
Part 2. Still Setting Blades
Chapter 8. The Alchemists
Chapter 9. The Rhythmitizers
Part 1. The American Adventure Begins
Part 3. Rock Solid or Teetering on the Brink
Chapter 10. The Melodists
Part 1. Straight from the Heart
Part 2. Breeiy and Unflappable
Chapter 11. The Cultivated and the Vernacular
Chapter 12. The Russians Are Coming
Chapter 13. The Germans and Their Close Relations
Chapter 14. Keys to the World
Chapter 15. On the Cutting Edge
Chapter 16. Everything Old Is New Again
Appendix: Supplementary Notes