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Baroque Era of Musical Composition v1.3

Reviewed 12-20-99

Experience Baroque Music in an E-book

The Baroque Era of Musical Composition ^© is a multimedia music-history lesson that lets you explore the period and learn about the music of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, and Scarlatti. Work your way through the book, listening to excerpts from the famous composers.

Click on hyperlinked words to learn about the instruments and build vocabulary relative to the Baroque era. Check the table of contents and jump right to the area you're interested in. Leave bookmarks to return to special sections, or enter a note relative to a page of the book.

When you register, you get five multimedia exams to use with the ebook, as well as a concept- reinforcement module and a performance tracker to measure your mastery of the material.