Selected student pages
DP essentials
EE - Sample 7 (Grade A, May 2022)
These student works are intended to provide some context for what is possible with the Extended Essay in music. There is a range of samples here, each one has delved into its respective topic with a somewhat...
Activities
Planning Your Project Free
Here is a pdf of a PowerPoint presentation created by Clare Lambert of the Nexus International School in Singapore. In it, she outlines a step-by-step plan to be followed over time offering guidance for...
eBook
Recommended Listening Sites
The following is a list of various listening resources that you may find useful in your Music DP Practice. These are a collection of sites music teachers have used based on discussions from workshops...
Activities
Maximising Practice Free
This page is devoted to a series of activities intended to eliminate errors in performance. Students were exposed to ideas on maximising practice time and the difference between momentary mastery and...
Assessment
Presenting - Sample 9 (Grade 7)
This page offers a complete portfolio for Presenting Music. It consists of 6 minutes of Presenting as a Creator that encapsulates two pieces: a traditional Japanese piece for koto and an example of Electro...
Assessment
CMM - Sample 3 (Grade 6)
This student work should be viewed in conjunction with the Music Guide with particular reference to pages 64-70, which deals with the assessment of this component, only for higher-level students. Several...
Start here
Getting Ahead with Presenting
This page offers you an additional instalment of some essential theoretical skills that might be worth acquiring before the start of the course. In addition to the other pages that have involved some...
Activities
Brazilian Popular Music
Imagine that you have been tasked with exploring a unit on the Brazilian Popular Music and, as, one of the initial activities, you are asked to initially view a range of pieces and then attempt to ascertain...
Assessment
Presenting - Sample 1 (Grade 4)
This page offers a complete portfolio for Presenting Music. It consists of 6 minutes of Presenting as a Creator with a single piece "Synthetico Adagio" (AOI4), using Barber's famous piece for strings...
Assessment
CMM - Sample 1 (Grade 4)
Here is a CMM project of a soundtrack to a skate film. The student samples his primary instrument, the drum kit. The student attempts to distinguish the roles between different elements of media such...
Review/Revision
Maximising Your Marks
These pages were inspired by teachers who want greater clarification on the assessment components, but more specifically information that is either not readily available in the Guide nor made explicit....
DP essentials
EE - Sample 4 (Grade A, May 2018)
These student works are intended to provide some context for what is possible with the Extended Essay in music. There is a range of samples here, each one has delved into its respective topic with a somewhat...