The Hall: playback and programme
Playing a recording, choosing from the programme, and the player bar that stays on every page.
≈ 1 min
Guide
Tours of the site
Short tours on the working pages: the score in the Hall, performer comparisons, the Web of Influence, the Map and the sources.
Each step highlights one control and explains it.
Paths
Reading paths
Each path is a sequence of five tours.
New listeners
The Hall, the score view, joins, the Web of Influence and a guided journey.
Score view: Satie’s First Gymnopédie
The engraved score with the current bar highlighted, and the same music in the Notes view.
≈ 1 minJoins between sections
The silence before the horn call in Beethoven’s Fifth, and how the score prepares it.
≈ 2 minThe Dies irae in the Web of Influence
The chant and its use in Rachmaninoff’s Isle of the Dead.
≈ 2 minGuided journey: Vienna, 1900
Recordings, paintings and sources for Vienna around 1900, station by station.
≈ 1 min
Players and score readers
Views of the music, performer comparisons, the Return Lab, score examples and the glossary.
Views of Beethoven’s Fifth
The Score, Notes, Orchestra, Form and Sound views, on the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
≈ 2 minComparing two recordings
Rachmaninoff’s 1919 and 1928 recordings of his Prelude in C♯ minor, switched mid-phrase.
≈ 2 minReturn Lab: exposition and recapitulation
The exposition and recapitulation of the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth, bar by bar.
≈ 2 minVivaldi’s RV 522 and Bach’s BWV 593
The opening of Vivaldi’s concerto and of Bach’s organ transcription, as playable score examples.
≈ 1 minGlossary and search
The sonata form entry with its recorded example, definitions in the text, and site search.
≈ 1 min
Historians and archivists
Recording sources, the Map, the Web of Influence, citation and performer comparisons.
Recording details and sources
The session, the original disc, the digital transfer and a citation for one recording.
≈ 2 minThe Map: Vienna in 1900 and Mahler
Vienna in 1900, and Mahler’s places in date order.
≈ 2 minThe Dies irae in the Web of Influence
The chant and its use in Rachmaninoff’s Isle of the Dead.
≈ 2 minComposer chapter: Mahler
Contents, influences, further reading and citation in Mahler’s chapter.
≈ 2 minComparing two recordings
Rachmaninoff’s 1919 and 1928 recordings of his Prelude in C♯ minor, switched mid-phrase.
≈ 2 min
Catalogue
All tours
‘Start tour’ opens the page and highlights the first control.
The Hall: playback and programme
Playing a recording, choosing from the programme, and the player bar that stays on every page.
≈ 1 min
Score view: Satie’s First Gymnopédie
The engraved score with the current bar highlighted, and the same music in the Notes view.
≈ 1 min
Views of Beethoven’s Fifth
The Score, Notes, Orchestra, Form and Sound views, on the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
≈ 2 min
Joins between sections
The silence before the horn call in Beethoven’s Fifth, and how the score prepares it.
≈ 2 min
Recording details and sources
The session, the original disc, the digital transfer and a citation for one recording.
≈ 2 min
Comparing two recordings
Rachmaninoff’s 1919 and 1928 recordings of his Prelude in C♯ minor, switched mid-phrase.
≈ 2 min
The Dies irae in the Web of Influence
The chant and its use in Rachmaninoff’s Isle of the Dead.
≈ 2 min
Vivaldi’s RV 522 and Bach’s BWV 593
The opening of Vivaldi’s concerto and of Bach’s organ transcription, as playable score examples.
≈ 1 min
The Map: Vienna in 1900 and Mahler
Vienna in 1900, and Mahler’s places in date order.
≈ 2 min
Guided journey: Vienna, 1900
Recordings, paintings and sources for Vienna around 1900, station by station.
≈ 1 min
Composer chapter: Mahler
Contents, influences, further reading and citation in Mahler’s chapter.
≈ 2 min
Glossary and search
The sonata form entry with its recorded example, definitions in the text, and site search.
≈ 1 min
Return Lab: exposition and recapitulation
The exposition and recapitulation of the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth, bar by bar.
≈ 2 min