Music

Course summary

IB Music seeks to develop your knowledge and potential as a musician both personally and collaboratively. Through the study of music you will enjoy lifelong engagement with the arts, become informed, reflective and critical practitioners of music and strengthen your perceptual and analytical skills. The course will widen your appreciation and awareness of music across cultures and time periods, introducing you to a vast array of music. You will improve your knowledge of musical elements through the study of form and structure, notations, music terminology and context. There is an extensive performance element in the course. • Study of musical perception. • Students choose one of the three options: creating, solo performing or group performing.