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Exploring Samples - May 2024
On these pages, you will find a series of student samples from the May 2024 assessment period. This was the third year of assessment for the DP Music Subject Guide adopted in 2020 with the first exams...
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Exploring Samples - Nov 2024
On these pages, you will find a series of student samples from the May 2024 assessment period. This was the third year of assessment for the DP Music Subject Guide, adopted in 2020 with the first exams...
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Experimenting Samples - May 2025
On these pages, you will find a series of student samples from the May 2025 exam period. This was the fourth year of exams for the DP Music Subject Guide, adopted in 2020 with the first exams in 2022....
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Experimenting - Sample 1 (Grade 4)
Here is creating sample of with focus on AoI 4. The student is experimenting by bridging acoustic music with electronic sounds. It is the student's initial attempt with the application of electronic music....
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Experimenting - Sample 4 (Grade 7)
Here is another student sample that was submitted as part of the November 2024 assessment period. In the creating experiment, the student uses AoI 4 by applying sampling and a rap over a jazz ballad....
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Experimenting - Sample 3 (Grade 7)
In this creating experiment, the student uses AoI 2 by adapting the impressionistic conventions of Debussy's music into a choral context. In the presenting experiment, the student uses AoI3 in an attempt...
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Experimenting - Sample 2 (Grade 6)
Here is an example of AoI 1, Music for Sociocultural and Political Expression by adapting the impressionistic conventions of a Chopin nocturne into a vocal context. In the presenting experiment, the student...
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Exploring - Sample 6 (Grade 7)
Here is an example of a student who has submitted the Exploring Music in Context portfolio covering Areas of Inquiry I, II and IV (with the Experimenting portfolio, collectively all four areas of inquiry...
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Exploring - Sample 2 (Grade 7)
Here is an example of a student who has submitted the Exploring Music in Context portfolio covering Areas of Inquiry I, II and IV (with the Experimenting portfolio, collectively all four areas of inquiry...
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Exploring - Sample 1 (Grade 6)
Here is an example of a student who has submitted the Exploring Music in Context portfolio covering Areas of Inquiry III and IV (with the Experimenting portfolio, collectively all four areas of inquiry...