Amazon.com In this CD-ROM, the lives and works of prominent composers are set against the history, arts, science, culture, and politics of their times. Music history comes to life as you journey through the Renaissance, as well as the baroque, classical, romantic, and modern eras. Navigate a timeline to visit various eras in musical history while you listen to background music from each respective era. Hypertext links provide word definitions and musical examples. The interactive life-span timeline shows when each composer lived, relative to stylistic periods and other composers. Multimedia History of Music and Great Composers includes the MediaCheck diagnostic utility.