Performing skills
You will develop your performing skills on two selected instruments, or on one selected instrument and voice, through regular practice and self-reflection.
Composing skills
You will experiment with and use music concepts in creative ways, within a range of compositional methods, as you compose original music and self-reflect on your creative choices.
Understanding music
Through listening, you will develop detailed knowledge and understanding of a range of complex music concepts, and music literacy. You will identify and distinguish the key features of specific music styles and recognise level-specific music concepts in excerpts of music, and music signs and symbols in notated music.
The course assessment has four components totalling 130 marks:
Component 1: question paper – worth 40 marks
Component 2: assignment (composition) – worth 30 marks (consisting of two parts: Composing music worth 20 marks, and Composing review worth 10 marks)
Component 3: performance (instrument 1) – worth 30 marks
Component 4: performance (instrument 2) – worth 30 marks.
National 5 Music (A or B pass)