SCQF Level: 7
SCQF Credit Points: 8
Vale of Leven Academy
In this Unit candidates will develop skills in solo instrumental or vocal performance to an advanced level. They will rehearse a varied programme of music, develop a broad knowledge of their chosen instrument/voice and its repertoire, and present a musical performance.
While entry is at the discretion of the centre, candidates would normally be expected to have attained one of the following, or equivalent:
♦ Performing Music on One Instrument or Voice (SCQF level 6)
♦ Higher Music
Entry to a performing course at further education, use of transferable skills for a general education, as a leisure interest, or for vocational reasons
♦ performance programme, lasting 15 minutes
♦ details of initial and future targets set in record book
♦ Research into one piece music within the performance programme
Performance evidence, supplemented with an assessor observation checklist, based on a live performance programme which contains at least two contrasting pieces, and which lasts 15 minutes in total.
Candidates may be assessed on a piece by piece basis, as they are ready, during delivery of the Unit; alternatively their performance of the entire programme may be assessed in a single event, towards the end of the Unit.
Written or oral evidence, gathered in open-book, supervised conditions, in which the candidate provides a description in the form of a programme note (around 200 words) for one of the pieces performed.