Music

Course summary

WHY STUDY THIS COURSE? A Level music is a varied course that will allow you to develop skills that all employers and universities find highly attractive. These include areas such as self-management, creativity, data analysis, performance, teamwork, problem-solving, and communication. Students who study music very often go on to have successful careers not just within the arts (such as teaching, performance, and arts administration), but also in other fields, such as broadcasting, publishing, law, politics, and the Civil Service. WHAT WILL I LEARN? Students will develop a true understanding of music. This will involve investigating what different pieces of music are expressive of. This includes aspects such as the mood, emotion, message, and attached meaning it communicates. Students will then analyze music to discover how a composer creates this expression. Students will use historical skills to research the context surrounding when a piece of music was written and find out its original purpose to uncover why a composer made the choices they did. Students will then make your own music, inspired by what you have learnt, as well as drawing on your own experiences. Similarly, students will use your increased understanding to make their own interpretation of other people’s music in a performance recital.