In the first part of this two-part resource (Music Teacher, August 2023) we began to look at the first two of the four pieces of music suggested by Edexcel for wider listening as part of its GCSE Area of Study 1, Instrumental Music 1700-1820. These pieces are merely suggestions – teachers are free to choose any relevant instrumental works from the timeframe – but they represent a good cross section of the music that students need to become more familiar with in order to understand the style of the prescribed works more clearly.
