New GCEs for 2008
GCE Music (2270)
Introduction
Introducing AQA's new course specification for Music for AS and A Level. This new specification has been designed to:
- enable students to extend their skills, knowledge and understanding of music and to take part in making music
- engage in and extend students' appreciation of the diverse and dynamic heritage of music, promoting spiritual and cultural development
- develop students' particular strengths and interests encouraging lifelong learning and providing access to music-related and other careers.
The following information and specification outline will enable both practising Teachers and Subject Heads to be better informed and supported in the teaching of this subject, particularly if attending one of AQA's Teacher Support meetings.
Classification Codes
Every specification is assigned a national classification code indicating the subject area to which it belongs. The classification code for this specification is 6030.
Centres should be aware that candidates who enter for more than one GCE AS/A level qualification with the same classification code will have only one grade (the highest) counted for the purpose of the School and College Performance Tables.
Centres may wish to advise candidates that, if they take two specifications with the same classification code, universities and employers are very likely to take the view that they have achieved only one of the two GCE AS/A levels. The same view may be taken if candidates take two GCE AS/A level specifications that have different classification codes but have significant overlap of content. Candidates who have any doubts about their subject combinations should check with the university to which they wish to progress or company they wish to join, before embarking on their programmes.
Assessment Objectives
The Assessment objectives are common to AS and A Level.
AO1 - Interpret musical ideas with technical and expressive control and a sense of style and awareness of occasion and/or ensemble (performing/realising)
AO2 - Create and develop musical ideas with technical control and expressive understanding making creative use of musical devices, conventions and resources (composing/ arranging)
AO3 - Demonstrate understanding of, and comment perceptively on, the structural, expressive and contextual aspects of music (appraising).