Music

Assessment

Component 1: Performing (30%) Assessment: a public performance of one or more pieces, performed as a recital totalling a minimum of eight minutes. Component 2: Composing (30%) Assessment: two compositions, of a combined duration of at least six minutes. Component 3: Appraising (40%) Assessment: a 2 hour 10 minute written examination comprising of two sections. Section A comprises three listening questions related to the set works studied and one short melody and rhythm completion exercise. Section B comprises two essay questions where pupils are required to draw links from their study of the set works to music heard as an unfamiliar extract and evaluate the musical elements, context and language of a set work they have studied.