Music – AS & A Level

Edexcel

Description of the Specification

The specification aims to encourage students to develop a range of skills knowledge and understanding needed to communicate through listening, performing and appreciation.  It provides a worthwhile course of study to broaden experience, foster creativity and promote personal and social development through musical communication.

Type and Nature of Work Involved

Students should be able to:

• Interpret musical ideas with technical and expressive control, and a sense of style and awareness of occasion and/or ensemble (performing)

• Develop musical ideas with technical and expressive control making creative use of musical devices and conventions (composing), through music technology and traditional methods

• Demonstrate understanding of, and comment perceptively on the structural, analytical, expressive and contextual features of music.

Method of Assessment

AS

Unit 1 - Performing Music
Internally assessed / 15% of total A level mark

Unit 2 - Composition
Externally assessed / 15% of total A level mark

Unit 3 - Developing Musical Understanding
Externally assessed / 20% of total A level mark

A2

Unit 4 - Extended Performance
Externally assessed / 15% of total A level mark

Unit 5 - Composition & Technical Study
Externally assessed / 15% of total A level mark 

Unit 6 - Further Musical Understanding
Externally assessed / 20% of total A level mark

Specific Entry Requirements: A minimum of a grade B in GCSE Music and a grade 5 practical award and a grade 5 theory award.

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