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DP essentials
The Learner Profile
Teachers will be designing their lessons and activities around the learner profile attributes. The IB believe that these attributes, and others like them, can help individuals and groups become responsible...
Activities
As a Performer - Ideas to Consider
This page offer students a multitude of ideas for Experimenting as a Performer. The material comes from an extraordinary proposal by Daniel Leech-Wilkinson who asks how many performances of any particular...
Assessment
Experimenting Samples - Nov 2025
On these pages, you will find a series of student samples from the Nov 2025 assessment period. This was the fourth year of assessment for the DP Music Subject Guide, adopted in 2020 with the first assessment...
Assessment
Presenting - Sample 11 (Grade 7)
This page offers a complete portfolio for Presenting Music. It consists of more than 4 minutes of Presenting as a Creator who created two pieces: an ambient composition (AOI4) and a piece inspired by...
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Environmental Sound Project
To allow your teachers to gain a sense of your familiarity with DAW software, your ability to piece together a work from non-traditional sound sources, and your instincts with constructional design, this...
Assessment
CMM - Sample 5 (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...
Assessment
Presenting - Sample 1 (Grade 7)
This page offers a complete student portfolio for Presenting Music. It consists of Presenting as a Creator that encapsulates a digitally produced piece in the style of jungle (sub-genre of EDM, AOI4)...
Assessment
Presenting Samples - May 2024
Within these pages, you will find a selection of student samples from the May 2026 examination session. It is hoped that these materials, the application of assessment criteria, and the accompanying explanations...
Activities
Exploring as Creator
On these pages, you will find lesson ideas for the approach to Exploring Music as a Creator. We hope these ideas inspire your students' thinking toward developing an approach to exploring music. Remember,...
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Creating Canons
This page offers some ideas to (further) introduce you to Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), as well as offer you the opportunity to record yourself and experiment with some of the features of your selected...
Review/Revision
Experimenting with Music
Many teachers and students regard the Experimenting with Music as one of the more elusive and therefore frustrating components. If you feel a bit anxious about this component, you are not alone. The marking...
Activities
Activity 3 Performed Adaptation
There is only a brief paragraph in the Music Guide (first assessment 2022, p.11) that addresses this issue, but nonetheless, with the great diversity that you need to include in your courses, this may...