CCEA A-Level Music Unit 2 Composing overview quiz quiz

By a written harmony examination

As coursework: one composition submitted as a recorded performance

By a live improvisation in front of an audience

By analysing a set work in an exam

Only the key signature

Only the length of the piece

The style, the resources and the form

Nothing; the brief is fixed by CCEA

Live or sequenced

Live only, never sequenced

Sequenced only, never live

As written notation with no recording

Playing it once and stopping

Sequence: restating the idea higher or lower

Deleting the idea entirely

Changing the recording volume

Playing it twice as fast

Adding more instruments

Turning the intervals upside down

Transposing it down an octave only

Lengthening the note values

Removing the harmony

Repeating it without any change

Playing it backwards only

It is too difficult to record

It scores poorly because it shows no development

It uses too many instruments

It is banned by the specification

Texture and instrumentation

Realisation

Harmony and tonality

Dynamics only

Writing only in a major key

Writing within each instrument's range and playable techniques

Writing the longest possible piece

Writing for a full orchestra always

Because the recording is the assessed evidence and must sound musical

Because sequenced pieces are not allowed

Because it must be exactly three minutes long

Because the score is marked instead of the audio

Through-composed with no repeats

A single sustained chord

Ternary (ABA) form

Random free improvisation

Setting it to new chords

Deleting the melody

Changing the title of the piece

Recording it at a higher volume

Record a piece before planning anything

Choose a style, instrumentation and form you understand

Write the longest possible melody first

Copy a set work note for note

Because it is judged by the candidate's own piece, not by a body of facts

Because it is not actually assessed

Because it has no marking criteria

Because it is only studied in the A2 year