to understand basic features of medieval church services: liturgy, plainchant

to listen for different styles of Gregorian plainchant: recitation and melody

to sample the variety of plainchant genres: antiphon and sequence

to distinguish church music from court music

to witness the emergence of polyphonic church music in the late Middle Ages: organum

to sample genres of medieval polyphony outside of church: a round and a chanson by Guillaume de Machaut