Using the Composer Screens

The composer screens in this musicology section of Musical Discovery permit browsing (in alphabetical order by composer names) through brief biographical details of the well-known "classical" composers  (in the wider sense), but with a handy table of themes, extracts or full pieces by this composer.  The screen also clearly shows the year of birth, the year of death, the country of birth, and the period/style to which this composer belongs.

The life-spans of the composers are used to place them in the appropriate position on the history time-line, available at MENU  Musicology -> Musical History Time-Line.    The country of birth relates to the Musical Geography countries screens and also to the musical map of Europe (for European composers).

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 composer, you can either click on the Next Composer or Previous Composer buttons, or else use the shortcut keys Page Down for the next composer, and Page Up, for the previous composer.  The First and Last buttons take you to the beginning or end of the list of composers. At top right, there is also a search facility. Click on the arrow for a drop-down list of composers, scroll down, then click on the desired composer.

At the far top right corner there is a green button entitled See this composer in History Time Lines.  Click this to go to the time-line screen, with the appropriate time period showing, and this composer clearly encircled thickly in green.


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