| 1. | Introduction | 7 |
| 2. | Types of Scores | 11 |
| 3. | The Look of a Score | 17 |
| Parts, lines, brackets | 17 |
| How to determine a score's makeup or instrumentation | 20 |
| Organization of a score page | 23 |
| Notation of individual instruments | 31 |
| Transposing instruments | 34 |
| Title pages: "Opus" and other work-numbering systems | 39 |
| Partial scores | 40 |
| 4. | Scores and Their History | 41 |
| The first scores | 41 |
| Renaissance and baroque scores | 46 |
| Scores of the classic and romantic periods | 51 |
| 5. | Reading a Score--Hearing a Score | 65 |
| Methods for following a score | 66 |
| Following a single part | 67 |
| Chamber music scores | 70 |
| Counting beats and measures | 73 |
| Synchronizing image and sound | 76 |
| Musical reading of a score | 82 |
| 6. | Examples for Practicing Score Reading | 91 |
| "Erbarme dich, mein Gott" (Have mercy, O Lord), Aria No. 47 from The Passion According to St. Matthew, BWV 244, Part II | 92 |
| Romanze in F Major, Op. 50, No. 2, for violin and orchestra | 101 |
| Waltz in D-flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1, for piano, the "Minute Waltz" | 119 |
| Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Serenade in G Major, K. 525, fourth movement | 124 |
| Quintet in A Major for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass, "The Trout," fourth movement | 133 |
| Symphony in C Major, K. 551, "Jupiter," excerpt from the first movement | 150 |
| Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, excerpt from the first movement | 162 |
| Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98, excerpt from the first movement | 176 |
| Prelude to Tristan and Isolde | 200 |
| The Firebird, ballet suite, 1945, excerpt | 220 |
| A few scores recommended for further practice | 243 |
| 7. | Orchestras and Conductors | 245 |
| Numbers and types of instruments | 248 |
| Seating plans | 251 |
| Spatial effects | 254 |
| The conductor | 256 |
| Conducting technique | 260 |
| 8. | Instrumentation and Score Reading: Suggestions for Further Reading | 263 |
