More pictures are included as illustrations for this narration than are available for examination in the gallery. A brief hyperlinked biography is also available. Seven composers are highlighted from Scarlatti to Handel. The CD can also be accessed through the Chronology, Glossary, and Index. The Chronology divides the century into decades and provides an essentially political timeline larded with references to the figures covered by the CD although usually just their birth and death.
Hyperlinks take the user to the appropriate entries for the people mentioned.
All the main characters and keywords are included in Glossary as hyperlinks to the main display. This text reference includes the Chronology, but not the Glossary. The text collection is searchable and hyperlinked to the main graphical interface. Throughout the emphasis is more on the visual presentation than the content. The material is predictable and historiographically conservative and could all be found in a standard textbook.