Music Studies
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| Subject Name: | Music Studies |
| Level of Study: | Stage 2 |
| Length of Course: | Year |
| Prerequisite: | Music (Stage 1) |
Pre-requisites
What will be in the course?
Music Studies aims to develop a complete musician: performer, composer/arranger, musicologist, and critic. Students apply their knowledge and understanding of the elements of music, and musical conventions and styles, to develop and refine their musical works, their musical imagination, and their own ideas about and appreciation of music. Students create their own compositions, write arrangements, and craft performances of musical works. They reflect on and evaluate their own and others’ creative works. Through their studies, students develop and extend their understanding of music theory and standard notation, score-reading, aural skills and application of technical language in discussing and manipulating the elements of music.
| How will I be assessed?
School Assessment (70%) Assessment Type 1: Creative Works (40%) A performance or set of performance of original works presented to a live audience (10 to 12 minutes in duration) OR Composition or set of compositions of original works notated using traditional or graphic notation. (5 to 6 minutes in duration) Composer’s Statement: Commentary of performance(s) or composition(s) (750 words written, or the equivalent in multimodal format) Assessment Type 2: Musical Literacy (30%) Task 1: Musical Application Demonstration of harmonisation or other musical manipulation of a single-line melody (2 minutes in duration) Task 2 and Task 3: Musical Analysis + Response Students may choose from the following:
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External Assessment (30%)
Students will complete 130-minute examination where they demonstrate and apply their aural, analytical, and creative skills in a selection of musical and aural examples.
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