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How do we move students from being mere passive recipients of grades to becoming active, empowered participants in the assessment process? This question at the heart of a recent post by Tania Lattanzio,...
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Hi Anton and Jim, You might want to add the BBC Sound Archive to the above public domain list. https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/ Kindly, Renato
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Hi Jessica, On page 35 of the Music Subject Guide, it states: "For music technology composing, all parts must be MIDI entered, or performed and recorded, by the student. Sampled parts and drum loops are only acceptable if the teacher...
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Hi Jessica, Thanks for your post. There is nothing in the Music Subject Guide about the music teacher needing to be present during the Exploring porfolio performed adaptation. However, you need to verify that the recording is an authenic,...
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Hi Jim, Thank you for your patient reply. I'm wonderring, If the piece selected for Section 3: Performance Adaptation have to be a piece that the student has studied in Section 1? For example, in the Section 1 research component...
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