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Exploring Music in Context - Overview & Lessons
3.Nailing the CONTENT
Exploring Music in Context - Overview & Lessons

This is one of the four syllabus areas of the curriculum. Exploring Music in Context is concerned with one of the processes of studying and investigating music. It involves aural, kinaesthetic, and scholarly...

29 September 2024
Student Exploring Samples from 2024
4.Acing the ASSESSMENT
Student Exploring Samples from 2024

On these pages, you will find a series of student samples from the May 2024 exam period. This was the third year of exams for the DP Music Subject Guide adopted in 2020 with the first exams in 2022. Generally,...

12 September 2024
Experimenting - Sample 4 (Grade 7, May 2024)
4.Acing the ASSESSMENT
Experimenting - Sample 4 (Grade 7, May 2024)

Here is another student sample that was submitted as part of the May 2024 assessment period. The student has (also) used Alberto Ginestera's "Danza del Viejo Boyero" as the musical stimulus for Experimenting...

26 September 2024
Exploring - Sample 6 (Grade 7, May 2024)
4.Acing the ASSESSMENT
Exploring - Sample 6 (Grade 7, May 2024)

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...

27 September 2024
Experimenting with Music - Overview & Lessons
3.Nailing the CONTENT
Experimenting with Music - Overview & Lessons

This is one of the four syllabus areas of the curriculum. Experimenting is connected to the musical processes of exploring and presenting. Here, students connect theoretical studies to practical work...

07 April 2024
Experimenting with Music Samples - May 2024
4.Acing the ASSESSMENT
Experimenting with Music Samples - May 2024

On these pages, you will find a series of student samples from the May 2024 exam period. This was the third year of exams for the DP Music Subject Guide adopted in 2020 with the first exams in 2022. Generally,...

12 September 2024
Experimenting - Sample 5 (Grade 7, May 2024)
4.Acing the ASSESSMENT
Experimenting - Sample 5 (Grade 7, May 2024)

Here is another student sample that was submitted as part of the May 2024 assessment period. The student has used J.S. Bach's Prelude in C minor BWV999 as the musical stimulus for Experimenting as a Creator...

26 September 2024
Exploring Music in Context - Teaching Strategy I
3.Nailing the CONTENT
Exploring Music in Context - Teaching Strategy I

This is one of the four syllabus areas of the curriculum. Exploring Music in Context is concerned with one of the processes of studying and investigating music. It involves aural, kinaesthetic, and scholarly...

25 February 2024
Exploring as a Researcher - Overview & Lessons
3.Nailing the CONTENT
Exploring as a Researcher - Overview & Lessons

On these pages, you will find lesson ideas for the approach to exploring music as a researcher. We hope these ideas inspire your thinking toward developing your approach to exploring music. Remember,...

13 February 2024
Exploring - Sample 5 (Grade 7, May 2024)
4.Acing the ASSESSMENT
Exploring - Sample 5 (Grade 7, May 2024)

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...

27 September 2024