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What will you study in this course?
What will you study in this course?
The National 5 Music Technology course encourages candidates to become successful, independent and creative in their use of technologies and to develop attributes and capabilities including creativity, flexibility and adaptability; enthusiasm and a willingness to learn; perseverance, independence and resilience; responsibility and reliability; confidence and enterprise. The course engages candidates through practical music-technology-based activities and tasks which are supported by knowledge and understanding of music technology and music concepts, form and structures. The course enables candidates to develop their practical technical skills and creative use of music technology in a range of contexts. It includes opportunities for personalisation and choice in selecting varied contexts for learning. Candidates develop the ability to express themselves through music, which supports creativity and independence. The course encourages candidates to critically reflect on their learning and the quality of their work.
Where does this course lead to?
Where does this course lead to?
At present there is no Higher Music Technology class. However, if numbers allow, we will look to add this to our curriculum as soon as possible. Successful students will then be able to progress from National 5 to Higher Music Technology.
Assessment in this course
Assessment in this course
Question paper: 40 marks
The purpose of the question paper is to assess breadth of knowledge from across the course, depth of understanding, and listening skills. The question paper requires candidates to use listening skills and to draw on and apply knowledge and understanding of a sample of all the technological terms, styles and genres, and music concepts listed in the ‘Skills, knowledge and understanding for the course assessment’ section of this document. Candidates’ knowledge and understanding of music and music technology will include and build on the technological terms, styles and genres, music concepts, controls, effects and processes from the National 3 and National 4 Music Technology courses.
The question paper has 40 marks (30% of the overall course award). It consists of questions relating to music excerpts in a range of 20th and 21st century styles and genres. A range of question types are used, assessing understanding of relevant music and technological concepts. All questions in the paper are compulsory. The question paper is set and marked by SQA, and conducted in centres under conditions specified for external examinations by SQA. Candidates complete this in 1 hour.
Assignment: 100 marks
The purpose of the assignment is to assess practical application of knowledge and skills from the course to plan, implement and evaluate creative productions using music technology. The assignment comprises two meaningful and appropriately challenging tasks. The candidate is required to draw on and apply technological and musical skills and knowledge, at an appropriate level, developed throughout the course. The creative productions may be in any two appropriate contexts, such as (but not limited to) live performance, multi-track recording, radio broadcast, composing and sound design for film, audiobooks and computer gaming. The completed products should clearly demonstrate application of knowledge and skills at an appropriate level (as defined in the ‘Skills, knowledge and understanding for the course assessment’ section of this document).
The assignment has 100 marks. Each of the tasks has 50 marks, providing a combined total of 100 marks (70% of the overall course award).
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