It is recommended hat you familiarise yourself with each set work as a whole, before learning to identify important musical elements and aspects of community and change between works.

Understanding of the musical elements, musical contexts and illuminate elements of continuity and change between the works.

You need to learn how to write perceptively about music, in particular comparing, contrasting, assessing, evaluating and commenting as appropriate.

The eight set works have been chosen to be representative of typical pieces from their areas of study. These pieces should be studied and analysed so that the students have a good understanding of the stylistic features and conventions of each piece.

The set works are: