OLD SPEC - Listening

Students will be required to respond to questions based on the set works. Questions will be set on all four of the Areas of Study.

The paper will be in two sections: Section A: eight compulsory questions from the set works that will be played on a CD during the examination (68 marks); Section B: one question from two optional questions on the set works, requiring extended writing (12 marks).


Students will study the way in which sound is organised through relevant musical elements, devices, instrumental resources, tonalities, structures, notations and contextual influences.

Area of Study 1
Area of Study 2
Area of Study 3
Area of Study 4
Western Classical Music 1600 - 1899
Music in the 20th Century
Popular music in Context
World Music
G.F Handel: Chorus: And the Glory of The Lord from Messiah, HWV 56.
A Schoenberg: Peripetie from Five Orchestral Pieces, Op.16
M Davis: All Blues from the album Kind of Blue
Capercaillie: Chuir M’Athair Mise Dhan Taigh Charraideach (Skye Waulking Song) from the album Nadurra
W.A Mozart: 1st Movement from Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550.
L Bernstein: Something’s Coming from West Side Story
J Buckley: Grace from the album Grace.
Rag Desh
1) A Shankar: Rag Desh from the album Live at Carnegie Hall.
2) SD Dhandhada & H Dhandhada: Rag Desh from the album Mewar Re Mira.
3) B Wertheimer and S Gorn: Rag Desh parts 1-3 from the album Priyagitah: The Nightungale.
F Chopin: Prelude No 15 in D flat major, Op.28
S Reich: 3rd Movement (fast) from Electric Counterpoint
Moby: Why does My heart feel so bad? From the album Play.
Koko: Yiri.

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