Year 11 IB Assessment Booklet 2019

YEAR 11 MUSIC (IB) COURSE OUTLINE

The International Baccalaureate (IB) course in music runs in conjunction with the Senior Music programme. The course has honours tutorials weekly for an hour. The aims of the IB Music programme are to give students the opportunity to explore the diversity of music throughout the world; to encourage students to develop perceptual skills through a breadth of musical experiences, where they will learn to recognise, speculate, analyse, identify, discriminate and hypothesize in relation to music; enable students to develop creatively their knowledge, abilities and understanding through performance and composition; and, to assist students to develop their potential as musicians both personally and collaboratively, in whatever capacity, to the full. The course enables students to develop their performance skills through solo music making; develop their compositional skills through exploration and investigation of musical elements; use appropriate language and terminology to describe and reflect their critical understanding of music; develop perceptual skills in response to music and, gain knowledge and understanding of music in relation to time and place.

SEMESTER ONE

SEMESTER TWO

Topics: • Elements • Medieval • Renaissance

Topics: • Classical • Romantic • World Music (1) • Introduction to Major Work

ASSESSMENT OUTLINE Students in the course study major works for the two years duration. These works are Haydn’s Symphony No. 94 in G major (Hob. 1:94) ‘The Surprise’ and Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43. Assessment occurs through a Musical Links Investigation (20%), Listening Paper (30%), Solo Performance (25%) and Creating (25%) at the Higher Level. At the Standard Level assessment occurs through a Musical Links Investigation (20%), Listening Paper (30%) and either Solo/Group Performance (50%) or Creating (50%). All work completed in Year 11 is of a formative nature, although works completed in the Composition and Performance area can be included in the student’s portfolio if desired. It is expected that at the completion of Year 11 that the Musical Links Investigation topics will have been selected, two creating tasks will have been completed and 10 minutes of the required 20 minutes of the performance will have been recorded.

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