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Composition guidance document here

Composition prompts page here

Composition log help page here

Final composition log template here

Quick key vocab sheet here

Full descriptions and all vocab page here

 

Finally! Useful resources for reviewing:

Ask yourself the following questions

Creativity and Development of Musical Ideas:

• Have you presented ideas with show potential for creative development?
• Have you developed the content skilfully?
• Have you included effective contrasts of tone colour and moods?

Technical control of musical elements and resources:

• Have you chosen a variety of elements and resources?
• Have you controlled the use of elements?
• Have you controlled the use of resources?

Structure and coherence:

• Have you ensured that the material is well organised and thoughtfully presented?
• Have you responded to the chosen brief effectively?
• Have you produced a piece which makes sense stylistically and communicates the musical ideas with understanding?

Submission checklist

• Is your audio saved as an mp3, wav, aiff, aif or aifc file?
• Is your score or lead sheet saved as doc, docx, pdf, zip or text file?
• Does your accompanying score or lead sheet represent your music?
• If doing a lead sheet: Does your lead sheet contain information about: the overall structure, details of harmonies/descriptions/features/outline of melodic content, use of instruments and/or voices and explanation of composition/developmental devices?
• Have you checked your timing check max and min with your second composition and exam board requirements? Suggested time for each composition is 2-4 minutes long.
• Have you met the composition brief?

 

The full specification with assessment notes here