The Longman study guides are written and compiled by GCSE examiners for GCSE students and are designed as all-year-round course companions for revision. They are specifically based on the guidelines laid down by the new National Criteria. There is advice on how to cope with the requirements of continuous assessment and on planning and implementing an effective revision programme and preparing for final examinations. Throughout there are comments by the examiner on important points and at the end of each chapter there is a typical student's answer with examiner's comments on it. There is advice on how to prepare course work and present work for continuous assessment as well as exam questions and specimen answers, for self-testing before the exams. Each book includes a pull-out revision planner. This new edition for Music covers the whole range of musical skills: listening and appreciation, performance, directing, sight-reading, improvisation, composition, music theory and history. This new edition has been extended, with an additional 16 pages, with up-to-date specimen examination questions. The current syllabus requirements have been summarised and the set works from all the exam groups are discussed, with models for students to study. Glossaries have been updated and the analyses on past set works have been retained.