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B. COMPOSING (COMP) – Paper 02 (74 marks)

Candidates will:

1. use musical and extra musical stimuli to generate ideas for compositions;

2. compose pieces reflecting sensitivity to balance;

3. create original compositions using different styles;

4. arrange selected materials; and,

5. record their own compositions (score and audio).

Criteria for skill assessed: Composing (COMP) – Paper 03

Composition – Original (35 marks each)

LEVEL OF ABILITY MARKS ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
Outstanding 31 – 35 Candidate’s composition demonstrates:

- highly imaginative use of musical/extra musical stimuli in
developing original compositional ideas;
- excellent sense of structure and unity;
- excellent exploitation of vocal and instrumental forces to
effectively express musical ideas;
- highly creative manipulation of at least TWO musical
elements as compositional features and of expressive
elements (tempo, dynamics and articulation); and
- excellent interpretation of the elements of specific genre and
style; and, use of scoring, recording and reflection.

Good 25 – 30 Candidate’s composition demonstrates:

- imaginative use of musical/extra musical stimuli in
developing original compositional ideas;
- strong sense of structure and unity;
- good exploitation of vocal and instrumental forces to
effectively express musical ideas;
- creative manipulation of at least TWO musical elements as
compositional features;
- effective use of expressive elements (tempo, dynamics and
articulation);
- good interpretation of the elements of specific genre and
style; and, good use of scoring, recording and reflection.

Fairly Good 19 – 24 Candidate’s composition demonstrates:

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