Music

Assessment

What's assessed: • Listening • Analysis • Contextual understanding How it's assessed: Exam paper with listening and written questions using excerpts of music. Questions: • Section A: Listening • Section B: Analysis • Section C: Essay This component is 40% of your total marks at A Level. Unit 2: Performance What's assessed: Music performance How it's assessed: Solo and/or ensemble performing as an instrumentalist, or vocalist and/or music production (via technology). Requirement: • A minimum of ten minutes of performance in total is required • This component makes up 35% of A Level marks • This work will be externally marked by AQA examiners Unit 3: Composition What's assessed: Composition How it's assessed • Composition 1: Composition to a brief • Composition 2: Free composition Requirement: • A minimum of four and a half minutes of music in total is required • This component is worth 25% of A Level marks • This work will be externally marked by AQA examiners