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Music
BackThis course builds on students’ understanding of the key areas explored in GCSE music: listening and appraising, composition, and performance.
Component 1: Performance (assessed in school).
​Students will prepare for a public performance of three pieces, lasting for a duration of 10-12 minutes. This will be performed as a recital to an examiner from the exam board. The required standard of performance is grade 6 minimum.
Component 2: Composition (completed in school and externally assessed)
Students will learn how to create and develop musical ideas with technical control and expressive understanding. Students will create two compositions; one will be in response to an externally set brief and the other a free composition.
Component 3: Appraising (examination and externally assessed)
Students will develop an understanding of the organisation of sounds (form, harmony, instrumentation and timbre, melody, rhythm and metre, texture and tonality), the context of music (composer, performer, audience, occasion, time and place) and musical styles and genres.
The unit includes in-depth study of set works from the Western Classical tradition, popular music, musical theatre and jazz/ blues. The exam will assess students through listening questions and essay questions.
Requirements:
To study Music at Jane Austen College Sixth Form, we require students to have achieved Grade 5+ in GCSE Music if taken or Grade 5+ on a musical instrument and Grade 5 theory.
