Extended Projects in Music
An extended project in music can take many forms: an extended piece of writing, a composition, a performance, a recording, or any combination of these.
There are only two important outcomes from a Y12 extended project:
1. That you learn from the experience about the study of your chosen subject.
2. That you can write and speak convincingly about what you have learned in your personal statement and interviews respectively.
Please read the suggested extended project titles below and send your proposed title and summary to your tutor for approval.
Please drop in to music clinics to recieve further help and advice.
Once complete, you are welcome to send a draft / final version to your tutor for feedback.
Suggested Extended Project Titles in Music
Architecture and acoustics: the influence of music on building design
A study of Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem and its context
A study of Indian classical influences in western pop from the 1960s to the present
A study of musical countercultures of the 1960s
A study of music, nationalism and politics in Spain
A study of the impact of music talent shows on the music industry
A study of the positive and negative effects of music on human health
A study of the pros and cons of legal music sharing sites for upcoming artists
Bringing the noize: strategies for marketing music to audiences
Decolonising the ear: exploring musical influences, appropriation and symbolism in the 20th century
Folk music and its successors: to what extent do we share a collective musical conscientious today?
From improvisation to orchestration: a study of early film music
From Fidelio to Parsifal: the development of opera in the 19th Century
From one to many: exploring the development of polyphonic sacred music in medieval France
From Paganini and Liszt to Elvis and Beyonce: a study of the history of celebrity in musical performance
Goethe and music: exploring the influence of Germany’s greatest literary figure on composers in the 19th Century
Hippies, hip-hop and politics: music and protest in 20th century America
Is Music a language? A study of communication through music
Music and autism: the role of music in providing therapy for children with autism
Music and capitalism: the place of free music in a capitalist society
Music and the consumer: the power of music as a marketing tool
Music and emotion: why do we paradoxically enjoy listening to sad music?
Music and ownership: the impact of music piracy on the music industry
Music and the gender recognition gap: forgotten female musicians and their contexts
Music and understanding: exploring the integration of music with other subjects to improve learning
Our changing perceptions of pitch over time: how equal temperament has ruined harmony
Stravinsky, Nijinsky and Diaghilev: a collaboration that changed the course of music history?
The development of the orchestra and its impact on symphonic writing between the 18th to the 20th Centuries
The legend of Josquin: exploring authorship and dissemination of music during the Reformation.
The limitations of Fourier’s transform analysis as a method in helping us explain our perception of sound
The meeting of African, American and European music: how three continents created pop music
The Message: changing values and ideals in hip-hop
The Schubertiade: exploring the relationship between the composition and performance of chamber music in the 19th century
‘The timps they are a-changing’: an analysis of the use of timpani in orchestral music from the 18th to 21st Centuries
To what extent can music intervention alleviate agitation levels in dementia patients?