The countries screens in this musicology section of Musical Discovery permit browsing (in alphabetical order by country names) through brief descriptions of each country, with particular reference to the music and composers of each country. . It contains a table of themes, extracts or full pieces of music written by composers born in each country, or else folk music originating from each country.
The screen also shows the capital city, population and area of each country. The countries described here reflect the present-day borders, rather than those current during the life spans of the great composers. For example, large parts of modern Belgium used to be a part of France. Josquin des Prez was born in such a place. He is listed in Musical Discovery as born in Belgium, keeping faithful to the current country of his exact town of birth.
You can listen to any listed piece of music by clicking on the appropriate row in the lower section of the screen. This then plays the music, and you can stop or pause it using the buttons on the PlayBar at the foot of the screen. Also you can use the slider to move forward or back to any desired part of the music. As an alternative to clicking the buttons with the mouse, the space bar can be used to start or pause the music, or use F2 to play and F3 to stop.
To move to a different country, you can either click on the Next Country or Previous Country button, or else use the shortcut keys Page Down for the next country, and Page Up, for the previous country. The First and Last buttons take you to the beginning or end of the list of countries. At top right, there is also a search facility. Click on the arrow for a drop-down list of countries, scroll down, then click on the desired country.
There is a map of Europe on the screen at MENU Musicology -> Musical map of Europe. From this you can click on any country to bring you to the corresponding Country screen