AQA GCSE Music Understanding Music listening paper, practice and revision questions, elements revision, covering musical devices relating to dynamics, rhythm, tempo, metre, time signatures, melody, intervals, keys, cadences, scales, modes, melodic dictation, ornamentation, instruments, sonority, timbre, forces, playing techniques, texture, tonality, structure, form, compositional devices. Identification of musical features, characteristics, genre and period for AQA GCSE AOS 1 Handel Coronation Anthems and Oratorios, the orchestral music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, the piano music of Chopin and Robert Schumann, the Requiem of the Romantic period, AOS 2 Broadway Musicals 1950 to 1990s, Film and Gaming music, Pop music 1990s to present, Rock music of the 1960s and 1970s, AOS 3 African and Caribbean fusions, contemporary Latin music, contemporary folk music of the British Isles, Blues music from 1920 to 1950, AOS 4 British Music of Arnold, Britten, Maxwell Davies and Tavener, the orchestral music of Aaron Copland, the Minimalist music of Adams, Reich and Riley, and the orchestral music of Bartók and Kodály.