While you can search this site by Historical Period or Musical Style Period, it is suggested that you start at the Ancient Period and work your way forward by clicking the NEXT button at the bottom of each page.

In an effort to provide definitions for musical terminology throughout this website, The Classical Score will make use of an Overlib feature that allows you to simply move your mouse over these words and a definition box will float over the word. This feature does not work with any version of Netscape.

Clicking on a link will take you to another page within this website or to another  website with more information (see note to the right). Most off-site links will open a new browser window, however, if you click on an off-site link that opens within your existing window, you will need to click on the back arrow button of your browser in order to return to the previous page.

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The links provided to other sites are for your convenience only.

We have provided links to the New Advent online Catholic Encyclopedia for many of the early sacred composers and theorists because this site provides more detailed information than other sites.

For a complete list of websites available on any subject, composer or style period, use a search engine such as Yahoo! or Google

For off-site links a variety of biographical and musicology websites have been used. You can search many of these sites for listings of other composers or music information. There are several methods that you may use to do this:

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