HSC Music 1
Performance
A successful performer may demonstrate:
- technical and interpretive skills
- personal engagement throughout the performance
- using balance and variety effectively within each performance (solo/ensemble)
- displaying an awareness of the overall musical structure
- maintaining momentum
- displaying expressive and dynamic contrasts
- familiarity with and understanding of the performance space and equipment
- providing a supportive and integrated accompaniment that was secure in intonation and blend and re-tuned when necessary.
Excerpts from Roscoe Frazier's preparation for his own composition for solo drumkit
Musicology viva voce
A successful Viva Voce may demonstrate:
- an engagement with the topic
- presenting a clear and consistent musicological focus
- making links with the broader topic area
- evidence of wide listening
- entering into a detailed discussion relevant to their chosen topic
- presenting aural examples, practical demonstrations on instruments, and scores where relevant, to support and enhance the discussion.
Excerpts from Lachlan Dunn's Viva Voce on Progressive Rock - Djent
Composition
A successful composition may demonstrate:
- composing stylistic works with an excellent understanding of the chosen topic
- composing melodies that were supported by an understanding of instrument roles and textural interplay
- writing idiomatically for the chosen performing media
- using accurate, perceptive and fully detailed performance directions
- presenting a clear and accurate score that provided keys/legends to explain unconventional scoring
- demonstrating knowledge of traditional musical conventions, with stylistic use of performance directions and dynamic shadings
- demonstrating an intrinsic understanding of melodic, harmonic and rhythmic development
- demonstrating an awareness of how balance and contrast provide interest in their works, especially through texture and structure
- using a variety of compositional devices
Elective Composition by Tom Hickman