Assessment
Experimenting - Sample 2 (Grade 5) Nov. 2025
This experimental report uses the American folk hymn "Simple Gifts" and develops renditions that include a piano solo, a string quartet, and lo-fi hip-hop. The performing experiment uses the piano to...
Assessment
Experimenting - Sample 3 (Grade 5) Nov. 2025
This experimenting with music sample investigate AoI 4 for creating and AoI 3 for performing. The creating experiment draws its material from "electropop" using the work of Charli XCX as the source material....
Assessment in Practice
Subject Reports - May 2025
After each assessment period, the IB produce reports for many of the subjects, including music. The reports are essential documents in which educators can gain insight into common problems and areas that...
Assessment in Practice
Subject Reports - Nov 2024
After each assessment period, the IB produce reports for many of the subjects, including music. The reports are essential documents in which educators can gain insight into common problems and areas that...
Assessment in Practice
Subject Reports - May 2024
After each assessment period, the IB produce reports for many of the subjects, including music. The reports are essential documents in which educators can gain insight into common problems and areas that...
Blog
AI Design Principles Free
A recent publication in the TES magazine provides a response to the rapidly evolving integration of AI within educational settings. The IBO has released a set of draft design principles aimed at guiding...
Blog
AI and Arts Education Free
Artificial Intelligence is a reality. It’s developing at a rate faster than we could imagine. As Global Music Educators, what's our role? How can we use AI effectively and positively? How will it impact...
DP essentials
TOK and Music - Student Activities III
In this third instalment, students investigate how artistic decisions in music are justified. The central activity engages students in a structured debate, where they advocate for one of three contrasting...
Assessment
Experimenting - Sample 1 (Grade 5) Nov. 2025
The creating sample in this experiment is drawn from a student's passion for film music. The experimenting component offered the opportunity for this student to develop creating techniques for film. The...
DP essentials
Subject Specific Guidance in the Arts
This is to let you know that the IB has recently posted (March 11, 2026) an additional clarifying document, "Subject-Specific Guidance", in a range of subjects, including music, which offers guidance...