Tempo, Rhythm and Metre

Instrumentation (Italian marking, Time signature? Straight?

Era and what makes it that era Syncopation?)
(Baroque, Classical, Romantic etc
Size of ensemble, instrumentation, anything
new, use of ornamentation, dynamics etc)

Melody

(Shape? Call and response?

Antiphonal? Balanced phrases?
Chromatic? Scalic? Instruments?)

Title, Composer and Date

Structure of the piece

Texture

(Homophonic? Monophonic?
Polyphonic?)

Harmony
Tonality
(in 3rds? Octaves? Chords?
Diatonic? (The key its in and goes to)